Whittle in Down

"There are too many people and things in the world. Having a passion whittles down the world to manageable size".

-Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief

(I watched Adaptation last week and found a lot of comfort in this quote. There ARE too many things....)

Comfort

"You caught me on a funny day... I'm not feeling very confidant today."
- Chris Martin on Q this morning

Comfort

“Listen, I am the hugest mistake maker; there are things I do sometimes and I don’t know what I was thinking."
- Jenna Lyons

Boy was that comforting to read.
From an interview with Amy Verner in today's Globe (on the occasion of J.Crew's 1st store in Canada)

Words to live by....

Have been struggling with a bunch of stuff lately.
Wrote this quote out tonight. I plan to enlarge it to 6 feet and post on my wall!

A nugget from Alain de Botton

"The point isn't to achieve everything, simply to honour what one suspects one is capable of."

-from the twitter feed of alain de botton.