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“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
― Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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