Katie

“Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason ”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking