The paradox of happiness is that deliberately striving for it is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of happiness itself.
“Paradise is not a place that awaits our arrival but a present we arrive at.”
― Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
― Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
“Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be savored.”
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“We cannot control the reception of our work. We must find our dignity in the doing.”
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
Mark Shoup’s 2025 Year in Books
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