The cultural atmosphere is … more conducive to anxiety-driven attempts to prove one’s goodness through faith in the dogma than it is to the creation of authentic relationships in which we are allowed to be imperfect (which is to say, human) or the development of meaningful social change.—Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love. Highlighted
I realised that I wasn't failing at finishing. Starting things was part of my process. It was a way of whittling ideas down, giving each one a little air, a little water, seeing which would burrow furiously down into the earth and stop me from sleeping, and wilt in daylight.—Leena Norms, Half-Arse Human. Highlighted
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth. Highlighted
That moment is what I love most about creating something new: the idea, the spark, the beginning, when what might have been was still what might be.—Hazel Hayes, Out of Love. Highlighted
Embrace what’s weird about you, and use it to create. Never think you need to be normal or perfect.—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
