We used to put shame on the thing that deserved it. shame was the immune system of a society, it killed what would kill us

If the world gets darker and dumber, and your response is to match it, to curse at it, to become obsessed with how right you are about how bad it is, then you're an idiot

Let there be light

Goodness used to be the standard, the minimum. a man who kept his word, who showed up, who carried what was his without complaining, that was a man. now the bar is so damn low

God decides wars in rooms you will never enter

God gives and God removes. the man breadcrumbed by comfort forgot him. you will not be spared what has been visited upon every generation before you. the man who forgets this builds on sand, the man who remembers walks through famine. keep your hands rough, your belly small, your life cheap. keep your cupboard stocked, your soul ready to eat dust. so that when the locusts come for the fields, currency, you will stand.

If your last day finds you, let it find you building. looking at the horizon, smelling bread, holding a hand, saying thank you.

Blessing is when the storm comes and you are still standing, because you used the quiet years to build a spine. praise for the good years, but do not believe them. they are only the inhale before the long exhale. keep watch while they feast

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will find it.

Every time you say what you are going to do, you lose a piece of the will that would have done it

Once you go bitter, you start losing on purpose and telling yourself its destiny. you stop showing up to the things that challenge you, because if you won, you would have to admit the world was not against you this whole time. you become a man feeding a parasite his own future, because the future might be beautiful, and beauty would kill the story he has been telling himself

The future of innovation comes from whichever soil God plants the next seed in and not from a favorable birth rate

You should never tell a pregnant woman to toughen up or not be so sensitive. her sensitivity is the child listening through her. any woman carrying a life should be surrounded by beautiful things. she is not only living for herself, she is stocking the shelves of a new human soul with whatever is within reach

When you are unstoppable you do not explain, you move, and the mountains move too, as if that were always their plan from the beginning of days.

You do not know how blessed you are to be able to close your eyes and trust that the world will still be there when you open them

The things people try so hard to protect are the same things making them slow and stupid and predictable. if you want to be free, drop everything that makes you safe and watch how your body moves without it.

I spent years in the wrong fight, wondering why God forsaken me. i was too proud to go where he sent me. i wanted someone elses field, someone elses crown, and i got destroyed for it. a strong fish on a mountain is a dead fish. thats a failure of obedience

The best human beings you have ever met were made in the worst times, and the emptiest human beings you have ever met were made in the times that should have been the best

Be so deeply in love with existence that you're willing to be reborn a thousand different ways just to feel the sun on your face again

The deepest women love what you haven't become yet. they can smell the potential on you like an animal scenting prey, and something in them wants to chase it out of hiding. they want to draw out the shadowed parts of you, pulling them into the light with their own hands, and watching your face as they do it. it's love of the process, love of being the chisel god slid across your surface to reveal the form trapped inside the marble. they are michelangelo and you are just the stone they chose for their next masterpiece