rob hardy

I think men adorn themselves with intellectual concepts in a nearly identical manner to the way women use clothing & makeup

Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

Writing kinda feels like hunting to me in the sense u are catching something that is eluding you but you know it exists and you can see it

The purpose of a draft is to function as a kind of scaffolding. It’s a sketch, an outline, a way for the creator to think through their project, to make mistakes cheaply.

shame is the aliveness killer