“I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.”— Phil McGraw, amazon.com
“Promise yourself you will start living and finding beauty in the small things life gives us.”— F. e. Marie, thoughtcatalog.com
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of…”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.”— Annie Dillard, amazon.com
“Life is basically an all-you-can-eat shit show.”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Jackie, Brian Tarantina, imdb.com
“We are hunters; we are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“When I entered the industry, I thought that bloodletting was a natural result of publishers failing to evolve. I was horribly naive.”— Spencer Dukoff, cjr.org
“I enjoy a glass of wine when I’m eating a nice dinner. I crave a cold beer when I’m on a porch and the suns in my eyes. I like a nip of whiskey when it’s so cold outside that my jacket simply won’t do the trick.”— Will deFries, sunday-scaries.com
“I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons but there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.”— Charles Bukowski, siir.me
“How, in this blink of existence bookended by nothingness, do we attain completeness of being?”— Maria Popova, amazon.com
“I always thought faith was a transaction and God was this transactional thing, this guy in the sky that would give good people things, and you eventually get to the end of that idea. If you really think about your belief, you will run to the end of that. It will break apart at some point. That's not…”— Lisa Gungor, goodgoodgood.co
“But what about thriving because of human connections? What about slowing it down and seeing the way the world works? What about listening to others speak? What if human interaction made you feel better and not worse?”— Jami Attenberg, curbed.com
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”— Sally Rooney, amazon.com
“You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”— Sally Rooney, amazon.com
“Life is full of things that feel like traps. Our own weaknesses and mistakes. Unlucky accidents. The violence done to us by others. But they’re not always what they seem. Sometimes later we see that they led us where we needed to go.”— MacKenzie Bezos, amazon.com