what do i do?
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
100 Simple Truths
"For me, that’s pretty much it: waking up and being excited and curiously restless to face the day ahead, and being very present with that day, and then going to bed feeling like it actually happened, that the day was lived. There’s nothing more than that, really."
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age


Our crossing is a brief one, best spent bearing witness to all that we see: honoring what we find noble, tending what we know needs our care, recognizing that we are inseparably connected to all of it, including what is not yet upon us, including what is already gone. We are here to keep watch, not to keep.
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Create a vacuum between you and what you're looking for. Instead of forcing it, Step back and draw it to you. - Rick Rubin
Understanding that nothing is permanent will have us understand that this moment will never be again - there may be similar moments, there may be more beautiful or uglier moments, but this specific moment will never be again. When we know this, being present and seeing meaning even in the most mundane of things becomes very easy because every momen... See more