For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality
Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected. . . . when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.