The paradox of happiness is that deliberately striving for it is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of happiness itself.
“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
“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 cherished.”
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
― Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
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