The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love – love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent, being a writer, being a painter, being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.
-Tennessee Williams
Thank you to my friend A for sharing this perfect quotation with me.
The things I’ve done that worked the best were the things I was the least certain about, the stories where I was sure they would either work, or more likely be the kinds of embarrassing failures people would gather together and talk about until the end of time. They always had that in common: looking back at them, people explain why they were inevitable successes. While I was doing them, I had no idea.
-Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
And there was that paradoxical peace of mind that emerged with middle age. As I accumulated more and more memories – good and bad – the pain of each individual bad one was blunted. What’s one more mile when you’ve already run forty-nine?
-Scott Jurek, North
Be still,
So your blessings can reach you.
– Olivia Jade
Another beauty I found on A First Sip. A good reminder as we head into the fall, which is the busiest time of the year for me.
I believe you love who you love
Ain’t nothing you should ever be ashamed of
I believe this world ain’t half as bad as it looks
I believe most people are good
I believe that days go slow and years go fast
And every breath’s a gift, the first one to the last
-Luke Bryan