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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
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I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can convince yourself that you understand it
hinterlander • Tweet
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Some people find themselves by already knowing who they are, then moving towards that. Other people find themselves by knowing who they’re not, then moving away from that. Many of us work our whole lives at a combination of the two.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
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We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
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