closer to the truth
Simple is hard. It is that simple, and it is that hard.
— Sari Azout
In other words: the value of commitment is that you get something tangible in exchange for it. By making a choice, you get something Real. Whereas stewing in your potential and refusing to transform it into something Actual leaves you living more in your head—weighing and considering and thinking about all of the things you could be doing, but not... See more
on trading potential for something actual
In truth, the greatest source of envy is not the vacation, the pretty face, or the artwork itself, but the shameful notion that I’m not living my life to the fullest extent.
Alana Cloud-Robinson • Catching The Thief Of Joy Red-Handed
Instead, I outright tell them that they already know, and I ask them questions to help them remember.
Anna Fusco • Let Feathers Ruffle
I tend to write to people who are, even when they’re at their happiest, there’s some kind of underpinning that might be a little bit pensive or sad.
Durga Chew-Bose of Too Much and Not the Mood — passerby magazine
There comes a time when visiting places has less to do with touring space and everything to do with touring selves.
Caroline Cala Donofrio • The Places That Save Us
It turns out, if you want to save a species, you don’t spend your time staring at the bird you want to save. You look at the things it relies on to live instead.
CJ Hauser • The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
And maybe what emerges in flow is something more essential—not the self we've constructed through repetition, but the self that exists prior to all that construction .