You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

every failure is also a victory.

And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.