Shannon

“Work occupies much of our time. Doing work we hate assaults our self-esteem and self-confidence. Yet most workers cannot do the work they love. But we can all enhance our capacity to live purposely by learning how to experience satisfaction in whatever work we do. We find that satisfaction by giving any job total commitment. When I had a teaching job I hated (the kind of job where you long to be sick so you have an excuse for not going to work), the only way I could ease the severity of my pain was to give my absolute best. This strategy enabled me to live purposely. Doing a job well, even if we do not enjoy what we are doing, means that we leave it with a feeling of well-being, or with self-esteem intact. That self-esteem aids us when we go in search of a job that can be more fulfilling.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“On warmer days Raychel and I would walk out to the bank and stand on the sandy shore and watch the gulls wheel high above the gently rolling current, hunting for stray dead things that the water gave back to the land.”
― Dan Franklin, These Things Linger

“She’d fled with the red people from a place where all had shown the silver moon their devil faces.”
― Adam L.G. Nevill, The Reddening

“She could see how the entirety of human inquiry was irrelevant. Human creativity nothing more than a petulant whine after listening to the songs of burnt out stars, the poetry of entropy. Voices of dead throats in ancient caverns.”
― Max Booth III, Lost Signals