Maybe your life will work. Most likely it won’t at first, but that will give you poetry.*
Yrsa Daley-Ward

Occasionally, even today, you come across certain people who seem to possess an important inner cohesion. They are not leading fragmented, scattershot lives. They have achieved inner integration. They are calm, settled and rooted. They are not blown off course by storms. They don’t crumble in adversity. Their minds are consistent and their hearts are dependable. Their virtues are not the blooming virtues you see in smart college students; they are the ripening virtues you see in people who have lived life a little and have learned from joy and pain.**
David Brooks

Thank you that this life is not
nature-only, but also
nurture;
Thank you that we have
a becoming, as well as a being,
For endlessness, the infinite
found in the present;
Thank you for our capacity to befriend
our pain and grow.

Katherine Morgan Schafler’s The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control;
David Brooks’ The Road to Character.