We know what we want, yet we do not know who we are. How is this possible? It is simple: desires arise spontaneously, whereas self-knowledge requires effort, patience, and time—things that frighten us. It is easier to pick what appeals to us along the roadside than to plant trees in our own orchard. It is simpler to follow a moral law dictated by others than to build one’s own code of values. And, certainly, it is easier to utter empty words than to think deeply. That is why we seek shortcuts. We align ourselves with established patterns and follow imposed rules, yet we avoid coming face-to-face with ourselves.

Do you shrink, freeze, or explode when someone gets hostile with you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yd0t-nbxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9s4tjuUhuM

Love your work and it stops being work.

There is a beauty in the fact that you will never truly know how much good you have sown in the world. You will not know who saw you smile and felt, for the first time in a long while, that they were not alone under the sky. Who heard your laughter and remembered that joy still dances through the world, like a bird that refuses to be caught. Who read your words and kept them in their heart, like a scented letter that keeps loneliness at bay on cold nights. Who chose to stay, to breathe for another day, simply because they saw you doing the same.