I've always kept a little collection of wise and helpful words in my head. I certainly don't live by them every day, but they are what I aspire to. The oldest is the Bob Dylan line that I've held onto since my teen years. Also from my teen years, the (maybe) Goethe quotation that was on a poster in my parents' kitchen with a photograph of Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein climbing the West Ridge of Mt. Everest. The Lynda Barry quotation (which she got from someone else but I can't remember who) is something she refers to often in her writing classes, and has served me well over the years when I felt stuck. The Frank Herbert quotation, is from Dune, but once a few years ago, I saw it on a random dude's t-shirt and couldn't get it out of my head. It was during the first Trump administration. I asked my husband Mike about it later, "is that a quote from Nietzche?" He laughed and said, "No, it's from Dune." Anyway, it's the one I think about the most these days.
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