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“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.”

— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

“I think I have given up on having one character arc or being able to make sense of it all as a unity. I'm trying to get lost in whatever work presents itself on a given day, and if it doesn't add up to anything coherent, that's fine.”

-Sasha Chapin

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.

-Jack Kornfield

I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up.

Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion

We deserve the challenge of becoming all that we can become.

— John O'Donohue

Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."