Sublime

verisimilitude,

At such times, I can always steady my life once more by returning to my soul. I ask it, “And what is it that you want, dear one?” The answer is always the same: “More wonder, please.”

Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form.

Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection).

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea—that it is ultimately entirely up to you—the better off you’ll be.

Every life she had tried so far since entering the library had really been someone else’s dream.

Such thinking assumes that you must be constantly victorious—not only against your peers, but also against an earlier version of your own poor self. Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play. But what does any of that have to do with vocation? What does any of that have to do with the

ether