"This is the most luminous time of your life."

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"You are someone who needs dreams more than you need nice things. You are someone who needs faith more than you need bulletproof, long-term plans. You are someone who needs to see your life as unlimited more than you need to recognize the inevitable obstacles and disappointments that lie ahead. You're a person who needs to worship the sky in the morning, and while you praise the peach and gold light, you need treasure every mistake you've ever made like a tarnished ring, like a clay heart, like a smooth river rock."

"Thank the gods that you were given a chance to see how tall and wide and full life can feel"

"Because knowing who you are and what you love is bliss. You can get through a lot, once you know who you are and you're willing to stand up for who you are. You can tolerate and accept a lot of mundane limits and navigate around a lot of mundane anxiety and dread, once you learn how to celebrate your truest desires and ambitions."

"I have lots of fears about my ability to keep writing for a living. I work hard, every single day, to keep the faith instead of giving in to those fears.

People who are good at cultivating an unlimited mindset avoid discouragement, even when it's arguably practical and realistic."

"Don't let this mundane, limited world convince you that the only way to tolerate the enormity of your desires is by disowning and disavowing them, by treating them like delusions, by mimicking the fearful and anxious and numb people around you."

"The most precious thing you own is your faith in your own stubborn heart, your own delirious soul, your own glorious dreams."

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"'Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.' "