MAYBELLE IMASA-STUKULS LUXE LETTERING KIT GIVEAWAY!

Besotted with Maybelle Luxe Kit Giveaway

Monday’s are not known for being awesome, but this Monday just got exponentially more so! The doyenne of Modern Calligraphy Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls has created a Besotted exclusive, (because she’s amazing like that), and because it’s Monday, it’s summertime and I suppose ‘just because’. We have teamed up for a giveaway–our most extravagant lettering Bestowal to date! This is for all those lettering enthusiasts, packaging aficionados, stationery hoarders and Maybelle fans. This is an exclusive set, created just for you and only available to win this week.

I think I should just get down to business and let you know what’s in this exclusive luxe kit giveaway, shan’t I? Oh, okay, if you insist:

MAYBELLE LUXE KIT GIVEAWAY

  • The kit includes a custom built 13.75″ x 10.5″ x 3″ wood slide top box (Maybelle’s husband made it!)
  • 26 page Practice booklet (A-Z instructions)
  • 1 wood straight holder
  • 3 Steel nibs
  • 1 Lined Guide sheet
  • 10 sheets of vellum practice paper
  • 10 sheets black paper
  • 1 ounce bottle of Maybelle’s favorite sumi ink (it comes in a dropper bottle with a letterpress label, sigh)
  • 1 hand crafted wooden pen rest with 2 glass vials for black and white ink
  • 1 Wood ink holder for 9 inks
  • 9 glass ink bottles (empty, perfect when mixing your gouache)
  • 1 full-size bottle of Dr, Martin’s Bleed proof White
  • 1 empty jar for mixing white ink
  • 2 letterpress coasters of Maybelle’s alphabet
  • 1 letterpress print of Maybelle’s alphabet on thick kraft 4-ply chipboard perfect for framing and a reference
  • 1 Botanical canvas tote
  • 1 wooden drying rack
  • Foto Rx | Vitamin L25 Paper to Pixel Photoshop action set
  • Photoshop for Lettering Artists class

This magnificent kit is valued at $500! The only thing better would be a visit by Miss Maybelle, right?  The giveaway is open worldwide and the winner will be announced next Monday, July 27, 2015. To enter to win please answer the following question in the comments:

What is your favorite quote? Or quotes? (we know how hard it is to choose just one!)

For additional chances to enter make sure to follow Maybelle and Foto Rx on Instagram, we will be posting photos of the kit for you to regram with the hashtag #lovemaybelle. Need more chances? I.know. (I wish I could enter!) Pin this photo and hashtag #lovemaybelle.  We wish you luck our friends, we can’t wait to read your fave quotes!

P.S. If you are interested here are some of mine, here, here, here.

Author / Miss Tristan B

Miss Tristan B. is the co-creator of the world’s best + easiest product photography editing tool-Foto Rx | Shopkeeper’s Helper and one of the writer’s of this delightful blog. Her lofty goal here is to make this a creative resource repository and to inspire you to fall truly, madly, deeply in love with your life.

photo by michelle p.

232 thoughts on “MAYBELLE IMASA-STUKULS LUXE LETTERING KIT GIVEAWAY!

  1. My favorite quote: Mahatma Gandhi — ‘Be the change that you wish to see in the world.’ I found this quote from the series “Prison Break” and it struck me immediately.

  2. My favorite quote: Quaid e Azam—– There is no power on this Earth that Undo PAKISTAN :) I Found this quote from BBT series in my School :)

  3. Ask her what she craved, and she’d get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.’ by Charles Frazier is an absolute favourite but it’s so difficult to pick just one! What a beautiful calligraphy set, Maybelle was the reason I picked up a dip pen in the first place and her work never fails to inspire me!

  4. Totally hard to choose just one! “Some words when spoken, can’t be taken back” is definitely a favorite!

  5. What a beautiful kit!
    I have so many favorite quotes, but here’s one that I love: “It was true music, it did not complain.” From the book ‘The Four Feathers’ by A.E.W. Mason.

  6. Two of my favourites from Buddha ‘Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most’ and ‘What you think, you become.
    What you feel, you attract.
    What you imagine, you create.’

  7. Such a beautiful kit! Here’s some of my fave quotes:
    “Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.” -Pope Benedict XVI Letter to Artists-
    “And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.” -Neil Gaiman-
    “You are enough, you are so enough, it’s unbelievable how enough you are”

  8. Right now my current favorite quote is “In need of vitamin sea.” Because I really need to get to the beach soon! =) Thanks for the giveaway!

  9. “I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.” -Michael Faudet

  10. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
    – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

  11. My favorite that is propelling and guiding me to live the life I want is by John Cleese: Creativity is not talent, it’s a way of operating.

  12. In a world where we are constantly watching others’ lives through social media, this quote is everything.
    “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde

  13. Be humble for you are made of earth, be noble for you are made of stars. Love this so much that I’m planning on getting it tattooed on me!

  14. This too shall pass…! Is my favorite of this year. Helping me to get through lots of changes in my life. (Marriage, Birth, Pass, Career changes…)
    Tthank you for the opportunity!!! xx

  15. Nelson Mandela: “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

  16. Maybelle is a calligraphy goddess! Let’s see…some of my favorite quotes that make me smile every time are “You are soft & alive. You bruise & heal. Cherish it. It is what you are born to do”, “I’ll eat you up, I love you so”, “There are always flowers for those who want to see them”, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it” – Robin Williams, “Protect your magic”, and I’ll end with “You are in my bones and my blood and my heart”.

  17. “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” – Steve Jobs

    fingers crossed!
    xo Michelle

  18. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

    I would love to write this quote with the calligraphy tools in this giveaway!

    Sarah Richardson
    @sarahscript

  19. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

    Definitely one of the best giveaways I’ve seen on a blog!

  20. Here’s one of my favourite quote. It speaks to me in an intimate level
    Never chase love, affection or attention.
    If it isn’t given freely by another person,
    It isn’t worth having.

  21. LIFE IS LIKE A CAMERA.
    YOU FOCUS ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT.
    CAPTURE THE GOOD TIMES.
    DEVELOP FROM THE NEGATIVE.
    AND IF THINGS DON’T WORK OUT, TAKE ANOTHER SHOT.

  22. I always love the quotes by Coco Chenel! She was so cheeky, strong and inspirational! This one really helps me on those tough creative block days; “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

  23. My all time favorite quote and part of my wedding vows is:

    “The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Everyday it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.” – Tahereh Mafi

  24. Beautiful!
    “If [she] did erre it was for knowledge sake” – Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611).
    In context within a wonderful poetic work, this quote holds so much. On its own, it is for me a capsule of courage and curiosity.

  25. What a fantastic opportunity to own such a lovely calligraphy set – thank you.
    Have read so many wonderful quotes but here’s one of my favourites at the moment: “Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.” – Edward Magorium

  26. The quote that gets me through EVERYDAY & has become my mantra is –
    “Everyday may not be good, but there is something good in everyday”
    Keeps me sane ;)
    Fantastic giveaway, keeping everything crossed – thank you XX

  27. Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. – Marty Neumeier (to paraphrase Gene Fowler.

  28. A celebratory quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.”

  29. Encouraging words by Arthur Ashe
    “Start Where You Are,
    Use What You Have,
    Do What You Can.”
    Packaging,…just…lovely, Tristan!

  30. I love this quote by Rumi for it’s wise instruction in any moment: “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love.”

  31. My favorite quotes are usually from the Bible. The one that comes to mind and that inhale been praying over my own small lettering business that I started with fear and trembling in my heart is “The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you” from Deuteronomy. He is the one who paved my path! Thanks!!

  32. From Amy Poehler’s book Yes Please, “That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”

  33. Im not concerned with you liking me, or disliking me, all I ask, is that you respect me as a human being.
    Jackie Robinson

  34. “If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.” -Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

  35. “Travelling – leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” – Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan explorer of Berber descent

  36. My late Mother shared a quote from Shakespeare in my autograph book that I love – “To thine own self be true”

  37. One I recently saw on @_nitch… “Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded…you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of…God damn it, you’ve got to be kind”-Kurt Vonnegut

  38. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
    Neil Gaiman

  39. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
    -Ferris Bueller

  40. As a life-long student, recent graduate of Oxford, and artist, I think of Michelangelo: “I am still learning.” Even those who are the peak in their field must always strive to be more. There is so much in this world, there is never nothing to learn.

  41. this is awesome. I would love to win, thanks for the chance. My favourite quote is “the mind is everything. What you think you become” – buddha

  42. a weed is but an unloved flower – I don’t know where this is from but that’s what I tell my weed-pulling husband all the time!

  43. “We shall not cease from exploration,
    and the end of all our exploring
    will be to arrive where we started
    and know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot

  44. I just found a quote this morning that I am smitten with. It is by Ariana Reines

    “She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”

    Smitten!!!!

  45. There are so many good Roald Dahl quotes. I love all his books. Here is one that I love:
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” What truth!!!!

  46. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  47. What a wonderful giveaway! I love Maybelle and this kit is awesome!
    My favorite quote: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  48. i have always loved this one from Martha Graham:
    There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  49. I have always loved this quote by Muriel Rukeyser: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
    The world would split open.”

  50. This is my favorite quote but can’t seem to live by it. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just have to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens” by Mandy Hale.

  51. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
    ~Robert Frost

    The Journey Is the Destination. Joy is found not in finishing the activity but in doing it.

  52. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind
    by Bernard M. Baruch

  53. Thank you for doing this. One of my favorite quotes is by Cesare Pavese, “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

  54. My favourite quote is actually from a Dr Suess book. It goes ‘you have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’ It reminds me that I have everything I need to achieve my goals within myself.

  55. ‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.’ Dr Seus

  56. The joy you take in bestowals warms the soul. :) It is indeed difficult to pick a favorite quote, but this is one that continues to speak to me in many ways…”The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” {Pablo Picasso}

  57. Thank you for such a generous giveaway! I love the craftsmanship of Maybelle’s kits.
    “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

  58. What a generous giveaway! Thank you for the chance to win it.
    I do find it hard to choose one favourite quote, but I have so many that if I gave more than one you’d be reading all day. So I’ve decided to go with Sara Stanley, the protagonist in LM Montgomery’s The Story Girl: “I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.” :o)

  59. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust

  60. Wow, loving all the inspiration from everyone’s favorite quotes! Thank you!!

    “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am unafraid.” – Audre Lorde
    https://instagram.com/p/5ZiyNAKC_u/?taken-by=speitzme

    Just love that quote for its definition of what it means to be powerful, and its recipe for becoming fearless. Something to strive for every day!

  61. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” Vincent Van Gogh

  62. Thank you so very much for this opportunity :)

    “When I get to the end of my life and ask one final ‘What have I done?’
    Let my answer be: ‘I have done love.’ ”
    -Jen Pastiloff

  63. What a gorgeous box of goodies! My current favorite for motivation: “The dream is free but the hustle is sold separately.”

  64. “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
    – Alfred Lord Tennyson

  65. What an incredible gift and truly there are too many quotes to choose just one, so I picked two: “The earth has music for those who listen” by Shakespeare
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” by Friedrich Nietzsche

  66. 2 quotes by the author Neil Gaiman always top my list:

    “everybody has a secret world inside of them. all of the people of the world, i mean everybody. no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. not just one world. hundreds of them. thousands maybe.” – Neil Gaiman

    “A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams, and a world in which there is hope.” -Neil Gaiman

  67. “Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.” – Mr Rogers

  68. When you are overwhelmed with too much to do just … “Do the next thing” – from an anonymous poem and quoted by Elisabeth Elliot

  69. I’m definitely signing-up to take her next workshop when she’s back in Los Angeles. Hopefully, it will be soon!

  70. “Those who stand for nothing, will fall for anything.” -Alexander Hamilton

    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu

  71. i always keep a collection of quotes on my desktop and for the most part my favorites are
    “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary”
    “Normality is a paved road: It is comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it” – Van Gogh

  72. “Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

    I’ve truly enjoyed learning from Maybelle on Creative Bug and I’d love to have her set to be by my side while I learn.

    Thanks for the chance…

    Warm regards…. ~ Karla

  73. My favorite quote right now, as I am older and wiser is, “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

  74. “Why, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. The White Queen in Through the Looking Glass

  75. oh this looks just absolutely magnificent!! I always come back to “we should live in this time now and have every minute of it” from A False Spring by Hemingway. Fitting that today is his birthday! :)

  76. My favorite quote comes from a movie, Conversations with Other Women and it goes “The illusion of effortlessness requires a great effort indeed.” I truly believe that. There are many more quotes that I love but I cannot list them all here :)

    I hope to win. I live in Turkey and there aren’t many beautiful calligraphy and lettering tools available. I am trying to learn and practice to become a better illustrator and letterer. I hope I will.

    Thanks for this oppurtunity!

  77. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

  78. “That is the best: to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.” –Gloria Banderbilt

  79. If you can touch the horizon you’re near your journey’s end.

    No day is over if it makes a memory.

    =)

  80. GOD BLESS YOU FOR THIS GIFT!
    MY FAVE QUOTE IS:
    AND NOW HERE IS MY SECRET, A VERY SIMPLE SECRET;
    IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART THAT ONE CAN SEE RIGHTLY, WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE.” ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY ( THE LITTLE PRINCE)

  81. One of my favorites: “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – JFK

    This rings true and is something I’m trying to instill in my young children (ages 6 and 3). You’ve got to learn that taking risks in life is the only true way to live it. And taking the biggest risks can pay off with the biggest rewards – sometimes financial, sometimes emotional, sometimes the reward is just a satisfaction so deeply personal that you can’t even articulate to someone else. But it’s the process of taking those chances, failing miserably, and getting back up to try again that leads to the great achievements. And along the way it also builds a strong and determined character.

  82. Mine is short and sweet, but currently working on a design with a flamingo that reads “Stand tall, darling”.

  83. Wow, what an amazing giveaway!
    My favorite quote is by Eudora Welty, who lived her whole life (92 years!) in Jackson, Mississippi: “A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”

  84. “there is no fear in love”
    &
    “You can onky go where your mind takes you – creativity is only limited by a life not explored”

  85. My favorite quote is: “The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling”.
    Thanks for this wonderful occasion.
    Alexandra

  86. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

  87. From the magnificent Frida Kahlo…
    I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
    I wish I could have met her.

  88. My favorite quote which I always get back to throughout the years is. “Keep looking. Don’t settle.” from Steve Jobs’ speech. This helps me get in track to continue pursuing the things that I really love to do.

  89. My favourite quote: “if you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” Or “those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”. :)

  90. I love Maya Angelou. One of her many wise quotes is the following – ““When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

  91. This is such a delightful giveaway. I don’t know how you’ll pick a quote. It is so fun to read all the entries.

    My quote is, ” chin up buttercup”. It always reminds me that attitude really is everything in life.

  92. What a wonderful giveaway!

    Another favorite of mine:
    At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
    Paulo Coelho

  93. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost…to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
    – Eleanor Roosevelt

  94. One of my favorite quotes, is a quote that I read on your blog some time ago. It´s a quote from A. A. Milne from Winnie the Pooh and it goes: “As soon as I saw you, I knew a great adventure was about to happen.” I love it because it describes my feelings when my daughter was born and I held her in my arms for the first time.

  95. “…the true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all
    the details of daily life…”
    -William Morris

  96. So drooling over this. Beautifully curated!
    People fear what they don’t understand. Andrew Smith.

  97. One of my favorite quote is definitely “Less is more” by Mies van der Rohe, so actual extended to our busy and complicated life!
    P.S. Love both your blog and Maybelle! So inspiring…

  98. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”-Napoleon Bonaparte. This is my favorite quote. To succeed you need to persevere until you reach reach your goal/s.

  99. I have many favs, but this one will always be on top of the list: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein. Thank you for the opportunity to share!

  100. “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  101. This is absolutely beautiful. I’ve always admired Ms Imasa’s work.
    One of my favourite quotes is:
    “Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it”
    By John Eldridge.

    Thank you for the chance to win this stunning package.

  102. hello lovelies, what a splendid offering :) … 1st quote is the first calligraphy i ever did ‘a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver’ proverbs 25:11 … 2nd is my senior yearbook quote ‘you need not love to give, but you must give to love’ … 3rd is from a favorite book – the outsiders – quoting a robert frost poem ‘stay gold’ … x

  103. DON’T FORGET TO BE AWESOME.

    it is written on the inside of the door to our flat. everytime I leave, I smile and remember to do awesome things.

  104. What a great opportunity! Thank you very much.
    Here are my favorite quotes:
    “Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.” ― Paulo Coelho
    “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

  105. A few of my favs:
    “Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats
    “Wisdom begins in wonder.” Socrates
    “It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” E.M. Forster from Room with a View

  106. Thanks you so much for a chance at this most beautiful giveaway.
    Favorite quote right now from my 16 year old daughter “it can happen, if you just believe” Abigail Flitton

  107. This kit is absolutely gorgeous!!!

    A favorite quote of mine is “We are all just walking each other home” — Ram Dass

  108. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

  109. 2 quotes i find myself repeating……
    “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” -Amy Tan
    “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom

  110. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

  111. “Be inspired by what you create”
    This is a quote of mine, I came up with a few months ago. Everything we have in life is something we have created for ourselves, whether that may be kids, jobs, your creations, your home , relations and so on, and I just really like the idea of always being aware and proud of these accomplishments.

  112. ‘Be curious, not judgemental.’
    ‘The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson

  113. I love quotes, but I narrowed it down.
    “My name it is nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from is called the midwest.” – Bob Dylan
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt” -Sylvia Plath
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Jane Eyre

  114. Wow! So many quotes….I’m going to have to come back to read them all and try lettering some! Here a few of my most recent favorites:
    “A life lived for others is a life worthwhile” ~Albert Einstein
    “No act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted” ~Aesop
    “I have found the One whom my soul loves” ~Solomon 3:4
    “It never gets easier, You just get Better”

  115. My favorite quote is from a song by Leonard Cohen:
    “Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That’s how the light gets in.”

    We’re all human; we’re not perfect; that’s ok.

  116. My favourite quote will have to be from Maya Angelou “You can never use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have”. That is just so true on so many levels. People tend to just stop because they feel they are not creative. Art is so subjective. There will always be someone who will love you art, just stick to what feels right for you!

  117. There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.
    When God designed the plan for your life, it was not dependent on you being perfect. Your mistakes are not a surprise to him.
    “I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection.” Emily Ley
    You are a warrior. Warriors don’t give up and they don’t back down. Pick up your sword and shield and fight.
    Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.
    It did not ruin her.

  118. A) “beauty is but the spirit breaking through the skin”
    B) love maybelle
    C) “the pen is mightier than the sword”
    D) “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

  119. I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o’clock
    Oscar wilde
    I used this quote on an invitation to a cocktail party I threw for my mom on her seventy fifth birthday.
    Everyone loves it

  120. “A Southern girls desire to monogram everything she owns comes as naturally as a southern boys urge to kill everything with fur or feathers.”- author unknown. So true!

  121. I am obsessed with this!!! So beautiful! “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.” I will also share on instagram!

  122. It’s so hard to choose one since I’m so into quotes, so I chose one that is the most meaningful to me.its a quote from Winnie the Pooh, about confidence. I’m a very introvert and not confident person that thinks a lot, so reading it acts like a reminder for me to believe in myself, to trust myself, that I’m stronger than I think I am.

    “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.
    A.A. Milne”

  123. My favorite quote: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
    ― Dr. Seuss

  124. ‘Dance like no nobody’s watching…’ was on a birthday card given to me 12 years ago – I imagined this sentiment with hysterical delight! I have included below, the full version to what I was given (several people have been credited for writing this and there are slight variations on the words and order).

    ‘Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.’

  125. Ah! I love this. My favorite quote: “She believed she could, so she did.” – R.S. Grey, Scoring Wilder

  126. Have courage and be kind. – from Cinderella the movie. I always tell it to my young son. And I love that he’s been taking it to heart, on the playground even if he’s speed-running he would stop when he sees someone fall down and help him/her get up.

  127. One of my favorite quotes is “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” from Alice in Wonderland.

  128. Hi everyone! And thank Besotted so much for this wonderful giveaway! Reading everyone’s quotes I feel so refreshed and inspired. I remembered this quote on a billboard I saw on my trip to Kyoto, “やさしい心はあいさつから” – literally means “A kind heart starts from greetings”. I did greet people more after that. Cheers!

  129. she knew the answers would come with time and… love ~ Kelly Rae Roberts
    My fingers are crossed for this gorgeous giveaway! Thanks. ~ Jane

  130. I am a military spouse so I always look for patriotic quotes. I always look for positive quotes during my husband’s deployments. This is by far my favorite because it is a simple but meaningful prayer that I have on occasion quoted:
    Dear Lord,
    Give me the greatness of heart to see the difference between duty and his love for me. Give me understanding that I may know, when duty calls him he must go. Give me a task to do each day, to fill the time when he’s away. And Lord, when he’s in a foreign land, keep him safe in your loving hand. And Lord, when duty is in the field, please protect him and be his shield. And Lord, when deployment is so long, please stay with me and keep me strong. Amen.

  131. “We were together, I forget the rest” -Walt Whitman

    I think of it as an appropriate reminder in the age of the smart phone to put that thing down and spend quality time with loved ones.

  132. HAVE NOTHING IN YOUR HOUSES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW TO BE USEFUL OR BELIEVE TO BE BEAUTIFUL — William Morris 1882

  133. Here in the Los Angeles area traffic can be a real issue. So this quote I saw on a bumper sticker makes me smile:
    “There is no traffic in the extra mile”

  134. I keep on coming back to this one:
    And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth
    “You owe me.”
    Look what happens with love like that.
    It lights up the sky.

  135. “I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.”
    ― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

  136. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
    My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
    The more I have, for both are infinite.”

    -William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

  137. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

  138. I love so many quotes, but this one I need to remember quite often:
    ‘Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.’
    Salvador Dali

  139. The quote I remind myself of almost daily and that never fails to motivate me to action is:
    “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can”
    – Arthur Ashe

  140. “You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It’s up to you.” – Joan Baez

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