‎what is to give light must endure burning.

viktor frankl

tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

mary oliver

out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. i’ll meet you there.

rumi

when we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter. he who sees it first cries, “look!” the whole party gathers round and stares. but when we have found the road and are passing signposts every few miles, we shall not stop and stare. they will encourage us and we shall be grateful to the authority that set them up. but we shall not stop and stare, or not much; not on this road, though their pillars are of silver and their lettering of gold. “we would be at jerusalem.”

c.s. lewis

write as if you were dying. at the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. that is, after all, the case.

annie dillard