"I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain."
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Jonathan Carroll
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"I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can."
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Kristin Armstrong
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"I know it’s over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real."
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The Smiths
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"Writing by hand is laborious, and that is why typewriters were invented. But I believe that the labor has virtue, because of its very physicality. For one thing it involves flesh, blood and the thingness of pen and paper, those anchors that remind us that, however thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our invention, we inhabit a corporeal world."
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Mary Gordon on the joy of paper notebooks and writing by hand as a creative catalyst
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"Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years."
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Vi Hart
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"Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined."
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Ann Patchett on writing and life
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I sincerely hope so.
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