“I tell myself that I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.” - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed.

“ It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” - Studs Terkel on his book, Working

Maybe it’s ok to just be objectively bad at something (especially at the starting point) to make way for some explosive, seemingly out of the blue exponential growth that might caught you way off surprise further down the road

Be a good gatekeeper of the content you consume, and rather than going out & seeking inspiration, to simply follow your innate curiosity and see where that leads.

“Take your passing brainwaves with a grain of salt. You are not your thoughts - you are the mysterious ‘something’ that witnesses them.” - Rhiana Jay for Frankie Magazine (Feel Good Vol. 1)

I’ve resigned to the dubious opinion that it is in my nature to live life unconventionally, though it takes so much out of me just to be comfortable with that.

To always be aware of and never discount what is within the realm of possibility.

“Our emotions arise from our models of reality.” - LessWrong