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But when we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.
“A work is finished when we can no longer improve it, though we know it to be inadequate and incomplete. We are so overtaxed by it that we no longer have the power to add a single comma, however indispensable. What determines the degree to which a work is done is not a requirement of art or of truth, it is exhaustion and, even more, disgust.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”
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“I knew I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, but I was overwhelmed by everything and didn’t know where to start.”
― Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
― Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly then to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
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“The poet Mary Oliver did this in one of her poems, brazenly asking, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” If you’re afraid you’ve come to this question too late, you are wrong. Ask your Stargazer self. It will tell you what my fallen-noble friend Marianna told me in one of my darker hours: that the world is re-created in every instant of time, and this moment is always your life’s beginning. No matter how many years have been stolen from you by your own ignorance, by cruel fate, or by the acts of others, you have a clean, broad slate before you. In this instant—this one now—you can begin steering by starlight, and if you do, the rest of creation will conspire to guide, teach, and help you.”
― Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny
― Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny
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