mantras
Generosity is not timidity, empathy or availability
“The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.”
3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
She ran her hand over her shorn head again, felt a stirring of pride mixed up with the pressure that was tightening in her like a bolt being turned into place. Her hair was a declaration, not an admission. All things should be declarations, not admissions.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Being emotionally open requires that you move beyond a bullet list of headlines and reveal who you really are.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
Robert Greenetwitter.comI understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even the folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will ever live this life I am attempting to live, with my gifts and challenges
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Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
instagram.comI like the term generalist, it’s one of the best descriptions of my career(s) and also a good representation of something I see as vital: being able to understand different domains and translate between them.
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
"If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known"