Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is self respect for reality and is one of the most difficult and central of all virtues.*
Iris Murdoch

*Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good.

Life is the ongoing process of self-making. It is that which continuously changes itself in order to continue being itself.*
David Rome

*David Rome’s Your Body Knows the Answer.

Always have the courage
To change, welcoming those voices
That call you beyond yourself.*
John O’Donohue

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: At the Threshold of Manhood.

A good question is an act of
imagination;
It does not know whether something
exists, and so has
no firm foundation on which to be
based.

Just when you think you know all the answers, the universe comes along and changes the questions.*
Jorge Francisco Pinto

*Albert Espinosa’s If You Tell Me To Come.

In practical terms. three rules of thumb are especially useful for harnessing the power of patience as a creative force: The first is to develop a taste for having problems. … The second principle is to embrace radical incrementalism … The final principle is that more often than not, originality lies on the far side of unoriginality.*
Oliver Burkeman

*Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks.

The dream of convenience is premised on the nightmare of physical work.  But is physical work always a nightmare? … Perhaps our humanity is sometimes expressed in inconvenient actions and time-consuming pursuits.*

*Seth Godin’s The Carbon Almanac.

You were sent to the earth to become a receiver of the unknown.*
John O’Donohue

*John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes.

The question then is how to get lost. Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognito in between lies a life of discovery.*
Rebecca Solnit

*Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Much of the introduction to the field was a playful activity, and the learning at the beginning of this stage was much like a game.*
Benjamin Bloom

*Angela Duckworth’s Grit.