

The lesson is you can only understand something when you understand it more than one way. - JS
But nothing — not a single thing — that genuinely matters in this brief, terrible, beautiful life can be bought or sold. It must be earned. And it must be earned the hard way. Through suffering. Through kneeling and surrendering one’s self to that very suffering. Love must be earned with the flames of grief. Friendship must be earned in the forge of empathy. Happiness must be earned in the deep winter sorrow. Defiance must be earned in the soil of humility…
“In the middle of a story you’re telling friends at dinner, excuse yourself to use the restroom. When you come back and sit down, wait and see if anyone asks you to resume your story. Don’t be upset if they don’t. Our every day, personal stories are not always fascinating to others.”