Pleasure doesn’t have to be loud, or messy. It was there in everything, in the stillness and even in the uncertainty itself. I was remaking my life. I was writing my way through it.
What I mean is that with its blunt authority the New Oxford definition of "pathos" -- "a quality that evokes pity or sadness" -- shuts down the conversation, it shuts down your thinking about the word, while the Webster's version gets your wheels turning: it seems so much more provisional -- "that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity,... See more
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.
"Everyone is in some way trying to be the same. Stay off of that. Develop yourself so you have your own voice. So that it's you they are looking for, not X. Develop a style, a way of working." — Mark Ruffalo