“write like it matters, and it will.”

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Author Gillian Flynn once noted, “It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person—just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters.”

May this serve as a reminder to myself and others that you will never impact the world by trying to be like it.

More fruitful alternatives include: Telling stories. Chasing creativity. Writing like hell.

words to live by

words to live by

  • "Voyager, there are no bridges. One builds them as one walks."

    Gloria Anzaldúa

  • “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

    Vladimir Nabokov

  • “Barn’s burnt down / Now I can see the moon.”

    Mizuta Masahide

  • “The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

    Siegfried Sassoon

  • “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

    Albert Einstein

  • “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”

    Abraham Maslow

  • “And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, ‘This is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!’ And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back and say, ‘No. This is what’s important.’”

    Iain Thomas

  • “If you suffer it is because of you. If you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible—only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.”

    Osho

  • “What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past, and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.”

    Hafiz

  • “Going on a journey toward the self is actually a public service. You know why? Because until you get to the bottom of yourself—until you humbly investigate the roots of your own suffering and nonsense and misery and destructive patterns—you will just keep causing mayhem, misery, and trouble... Not only for yourself, but for others.”

    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

    Rumi

  • “Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, and make peace.”

    Iyalna Vanzant