If all great things are done by a series of small things put together, then great lives are created by a series of small moments put together, most of which we miss out on because we’re writing the synopsis rather than the paragraphs of the chapters.
Forgiveness is something we give to ourselves before anybody else.
We’ll never not care and we’ll never not hear them. It’s only a matter of whether or not we’ll act based on them.
We let art guide us, though it’s more accurate to say we just follow people who are guiding themselves.
We start to realize that we are only as grateful as we were once without. We are only as accepting as we were once exclusive. We are only as happy as we were once suffering. The change that happens is a change in perception.
There is no art that is greater or lesser than another. There can be art that affects us personally to greater or lesser degrees, but that’s all.
In theory, all of this is a spiritual experience. Though we define each one as an isolated incident, tuning into the spiritual experience of it all is becoming aware of it, for that moment.
Someday you will realize that the worst happened and the best followed, and that turmoil doesn’t serve you for the sheer fact that things will work out on their own terms, regardless of how much we suffer from our own thoughts about them.
It’s not about you. People will teach you to format your selling points as though you are the product to be sold but what you need to be selling is what you can do for the company.
The crux of anything worth doing is making it something that lasts longer than the instantaneous rush does.