Sublime

Whenever

She’s righteous. She likes to be appreciated. Genius is like that.

1. I know what makes people grow more reliably than anything else. It is: taking on a difficult project with some amount of public accountability. This can be large or small: a lecture series, a business, a blog, a house, a child, etc.


2. It’s strange, but I know that it’s common to resist positive emotions, as well as negative ones. Ask yours

realized: I don’t think I’m cut out to support a male artist. And I’m certainly not cut out to have a family with one.

This theory also applies to love. You always pictured your true love as tall, with a healthy savings account, but the one who makes you laugh your ass off and feel more alive is short on inches and a few bucks. Feelings don’t lie. “Feelings first” is really the essence of simplified living—a focus on what matters most.

In my head, the critics and the crowd were one and the same.

The process of becoming yourself is not a corporate desk job, and it is not homework, and it is not an unticked box languishing on a to-do list. You do not have to treat your flaws like action items that must be systematically targeted and eliminated in order to receive a return on investment. You have no supervisor; you should not be punished when

Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. It’s quietly romantic. He makes her tea. She goes to the doctor appointment with him. They listen to each other’s daily trivia. They put up with each other’s quirks. They’re there for each other.

Fulfillment is living in accordance with what we genuinely value.