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Every beam of light in life is a rainbow — sensitive people just carry their own prism.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett

"Loving yourself means knowing how to refuse — refusing everything that harms you. Don't just say you love yourself; you have to take responsibility and pay the price for it."

Do the things that are guaranteed to pay off as long as you do them: sleep well, eat well, exercise, read.

In moments when I'm full of love, everyone looks like an adorable little cat to me.

Started bouldering recently — three sessions in and I like it more every time. Also, my coworkers are all really nice. Adorable, honestly.

This might sound like I've been brainwashed by capitalism, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that work can actually make you happy. Just tiring, that's all. P.S. I really can't stand being boxed into repeating one narrow task — give me full ownership of a whole area, end to end, and I'm at my happiest.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. — Amelia Earhart

Lately the only thing I'm really looking forward to might be Hollow Knight: Silksong, coming out September 4.

Juggling so many things and so many projects at once (four or more). I'm honestly struggling to keep up.

Working with clients is so counterintuitive. Much of the time you have to assume the problem they describe isn't quite what's actually happening, and go reproduce it yourself. Silly me — I always take their word for it and charge straight at the problem.

I love this world so much, and yet sometimes it just feels exhausting.

"If you think a desire matters to you, yet you aren't actually doing anything about it, it probably isn't that important to you. The things you actually put into practice are the ones with higher priority."

There is nothing you can't quit halfway.

Choose freely, act decisively.

Existence is empty, theories are false, and life is strong. — Nietzsche

When you truly want to do something, the whole world will help you. — Hitchhiking to Berlin

Language is part of freedom. English is a language, math is a language, painting is a language, music is a language, code is a language, and the body is a language too. The bigger the world you can touch and understand, the freer you are.

Whenever you set a goal, the process is painful. Only by building a system of daily action — acting without chasing a specific goal — are you most likely to reach it effortlessly.

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements — the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution — weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. — Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing

The world holds countless choices; when you cannot see them, they do not exist.

Every morning you wake up, you arrive in this world all over again.

The things you cling to hardly matter at all.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. — John Lennon

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money. — Tim O'Reilly

The old self takes the leap; a new self grows in its place.

Don't look down on those who seek stability, and don't mock those who took a risk and failed.

We have suffered all kinds of wounds, but today we ought to be joyful. — Wang Zengqi

Perfect is the enemy of done.

Don't be foolish and waste your time waiting.

Getting hurt is a built-in clause of intimacy.

Sometimes what you're buying is the fact that you can afford it.

When I'm greedy, weak, or wavering, other people's ideas take over my mind and crowd out my real self. The past mistakes that trouble me — in the very moment I made them, I already knew, deep down, they were wrong. So my goal is not to avoid mistakes, but to make sure the mistakes I make truly come from me.

The world is on easy mode; it's yourself that's on hard mode.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

Things worth doing are worth doing badly the first time.