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    “What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.”

    Karl Ove Knausgard, Autumn

      “The reason creativity wilts inside of us like a vase full of snipped wildflowers is the very same reason love fades. Somewhere along the line, we stop noticing. We can never stop noticing. The moment we stop noticing, we might as well be dead. We’re alive and breathing but we feel nothing at all. Creativity and love dies when we feel nothing at all. And so we notice so we we can feel because, in the words of Klinkenborg, noticing means thinking with all your senses.”

      Cole Schafer

        “When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, ‘the next one.’ This is the essence of the artistic process. When we’re in the liminal space between now and what is about to come, we’re fully alive.”

        Seth Godin

          “Anticipation can soften despair. Always have something on the calendar that you’re looking forward to.”

          Mari Andrews, Out of the Blue

            “Whenever you see that something is creating misery, drop it then and there—don’t hold it for a single moment. This is courage: courage to live, courage to risk, courage to adventure. And only those who are courageous are one day rewarded by the whole, by light, by love, bliss, and benediction.”

            Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 42)

              “Never settle for any mediocrity, because that is a sin against life. Never ask that life should be without risk, and never ask for security, because that is asking for death.”

              Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 41)