“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

-Charles Bukowski

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike

If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr

Imperfection doesn’t matter.

“The times are urgent. Let us slow down.” —Bayo Akomolafe

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

-Margaret Mead