family isn’t always inherited. sometimes it’s created from the people who answer every call, remember how you take your coffee, and never make you feel like you’re too much.
“If you’re an introvert and you go into sales and you’re with people ten hours a day — it will suck you dry.”
― Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
― Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Stop thinking of hope as a feeling then. But instead, it’s something you work at, something you recommit to every day. It’s showing up and doing it scared. Fear is a cult that claims too many. It lures you in with faulty promises of safety. It wants to change your very identity and keep you bound to its lies. Not one decision I made out of fear has ever served me”
― Forever Your Girl
― Forever Your Girl
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
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“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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