I want to share a quote with you that I hold near and dear to my heart. I call it my life’s motto and I repeat it to myself on the daily. The quote is, “Nothing worth doing is ever easy,” and I believe it is one of the best quotes in the English language. This quote and I, we go way back…
You see, several years ago I painstakingly painted that quote, “Nothing worth doing is ever easy,” on a large canvas, the largest I had ever done. It took me way longer than I would like to admit, but I felt super accomplished when I completed it. To this day, that painted quote hangs in my bedroom above my mid-century modern art cabinet. It’s one of the first things I see when I wake up each day.
Over the last several years this quote has helped me push through more tough times than I can count. It helped me push through the sleepless nights when my son was little and I doubted my abilities as a new mom. It helped me move forward after losing my dad in 2019 when I all I wanted to do was crawl in a hole and never come out. It still pushes me through my multi-year battle with Psoriasis and reminds me that ‘yes, this is hard, but it will be so worth it, keep going.’
When I signed up for Localtopia last September, it motivated me to get up and paint every day before the sun came up for 4 months straight to prepare for my biggest art show yet.
Needless to say, that quote has helped me overcome self-doubt, have courage in the face of uncertainty, and keep moving forward even when the odds felt against me.
A few years back, I thought about re-lettering that quote on its canvas, since my hand-lettering had improved over the years, but thankfully, I did not. That old janky lettering is a nice reminder of how far I’ve come in my hand-lettering journey. It’s also a good reminder that life itself is a journey. Take it as it comes, do the best you can, and push through the tough times. After all, nothing worth doing is ever easy.