“Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.”

People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.

Always place your becoming above your current being.

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.

Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.

Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.

Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.

Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.

There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.