Words

"Do you want to brainstorm or for me to just listen?"

I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time.

— Nayyirah Waheed

Even in perceived chaos, there is order and pattern. A cosmic undercurrent running through all things, which no story is immense enough to contain.

'Make art, and let others tell the stories.'

\-RR

your entire life is a form of self-expression.

Life got way chiller once I stopped conceptualizing it as some grand story and instead as just a participant in the cosmic chaos just tryna have a good time

A part of yourself is completely unexplored till you meet a particular person or go to a particular place.

No one has the same measures of greatness.

what we care for, we will grow to resemble. and what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer. — richard powers

“at each step, do what feels most clear and alive“

'if you're a musician, go to an art show. if you're a painter, study dance...'

'Boredom: it's what makes you bounce back with a renewed commitment. (...) Let yourself go to the sense of being disconnected and meaningless. Let it wash over you and drown you a little bit before you come up gasping for air.'