Liz

“Progress is unimaginably difficult, dangerous, always at risk, always made by people with only partial vision.”
― Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me

“As the poet Robert Frost put it, "The only way out is through/" And the only good way through is together. Even when circumstances separate us - in fact, especially when they do - the way through is together.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it without the least alteration? He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir