“There’s a big difference between what you actually enjoy doing and the daydream of what you want your identity to encapsulate.”

– Steven Harrington, via The Great Discontent

“Feelings of discontent can leave you paralyzed if you dwell on the feeling versus embracing that discontent and allowing it to propel you forward.”

– Tina Essmaker of The Great Discontent, via Kit

“There’s no magic to the creative process. It’s about practicing every day, whatever your craft. That’s how you find your voice, how you get better, and how you create opportunities for yourself. You create your own momentum by doing the work.”

– Tina Essmaker of The Great Discontent, via Kit

“Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.”

– Anna Quindlen, via brainpickings

“People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a résumé than to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you’ve gotten back the chest X ray and it doesn’t look so good, or when the doctor writes “prognosis, poor.””

– Anna Quindlen, via brainpickings

“mass media-addled mindset in which individuals lose the ability to distinguish truth from fiction or important issues from trivial ones”

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“I know that I know nothing”

– Socrates