Words to live by
“Find the good and praise it”
– Betty Shabazz
"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
I don't want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.
Joan Westenberg • I deleted everything. | Joan Westenberg
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
— “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
The emerging Octavia made three rules for herself: Don’t leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with. Don’t walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open. Don’t make excuses about what you don’t have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to “find a way, make a way.”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Octavia Butler’s approach
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
– Michael J. Fox