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In truth, the greatest source of envy is not the vacation, the pretty face, or the artwork itself, but the shameful notion that I’m not living my life to the fullest extent.

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”

The big prize is to discover a new fractal bud. You notice a crack in the surface of knowledge, pry it open, and there's a whole world inside.

Life is a series of misunderstandings. We only get to decide how we respond when we don’t understand.

Instead, I outright tell them that they already know, and I ask them questions to help them remember.

to let every day’s path be a mystery instead of a narrow winding road.

That is what these characters consistently struggle with: they don’t want to make themselves legible, or they desperately want to but can’t.