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Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.


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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.



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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.



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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.



Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.



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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.



Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.



One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.



To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.



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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.





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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.



To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.



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Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.



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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.



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... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.



I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.




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