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I will pursue something that I love—and hopefully become good at it, instead of pursuing something that I’m good at—but don’t love.
“The playwright Carl Zuckmayer wrote that ‘The netherworld had opened its portals and spewed out its basest, most horrid, and filthiest spirits … What was being unleashed here was the revolt of envy; malevolence; bitterness; blind, vicious vengefulness.’15 A British journalist who witnessed it called the procession ‘an indescribable witches’ sabbath’.16”
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
― The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
“Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“And a shift in perspective can change a life. Hope can create possibility. Options are always available to us if we stand back and look at things differently.”
― A Life in Parts
― A Life in Parts
“Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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