Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.