Jake Mesko

“HENRY JAMES once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work. The first two were disarmingly straightforward: What was the artist trying to achieve? Did he/she succeed? The third’s a zinger: Was it worth doing?”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,” Václav Havel, the Czech dissident, writer, and statesman, said, “but the certainty that it is worth doing no matter how it turns out.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World

“we cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person

“Not every girl survives the forest. Sometimes she becomes it.”
― Catherine Garbinsky, Even Curses End