quotes that jumped out at me today

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself...That work is not an expression of the desire for praise and recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life.
Stanley Kunitz