Failing and Flying
He realized that “failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.” To his surprise, James realized that the answer was yes. He really did want to go on making things. For the moment, all he wanted to make were beautiful stars on children’s bicycles.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Had an excited sense of bow it might not be so bad to fail at love if one could only put it well.
Maryse Holder, Edith Jones, • Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico
We know the point well enough from tragedy. In the tragic tales of the ancient Greeks, it is not enormous errors and slips that unleash drama but the tiniest, most innocent of mistakes. From seemingly minor starting points, terrible consequences unfurl. Our emotional lives are similarly tragic in structure. Everyone around us may have been trying t
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