Iâm at peace: my favourite authors are all dead. Theyâre not likely to come along and rearrange my slippers or scribble in the margins.âSophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier to not to know, not to choose, and not to do. But it isnât.
The cultural atmosphere is ⌠more conducive to anxiety-driven attempts to prove oneâs 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.âKai 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.âLeena Norms, Half-Arse Human. Highlighted
âYou must never feel badly about making mistakes,â explained Reason quietly, âas 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.ââNorton 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.âHazel Hayes, Out of Love. Highlighted
Embrace whatâs weird about you, and use it to create. Never think you need to be normal or perfect.âDerek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted