Pin

You don’t know a thing about the person you’ll turn out to be in a few years. That’s what’s so incredible: When you’re fully alive, you’re constantly surprised. Joy springs from surprise, from uncertainty, from surrender. Romance and trust and deep communion are always left to chance. Dare to cultivate curiosity instead of fear and control. Dare to... See more

it’s not done because it’s perfect. It’s done because it’s done.

The opposite of an unfolding is a vision. A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into another context your problems will go away.

But as a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.

The output matters, but the intention, the struggle, the care is what makes it count — what gives it weight.

what matters more is who you are in your job, than the job itself

“You can’t get enough of a thing you don’t need,” she says, illustrating how the desire for something we don’t really need will always feel insatiable, because no need can actually be met.