quotes
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
— Louise Gluck

"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak
From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s

The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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