To live in a world without forgiveness, she intimates, is to make of life an instant fossil record - Maria Popova

It is a beautiful impulse to contain the infinite in the finite, to rest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb towards higher truth. It is also a limiting one, for in naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves.

I started writing to figure out how to live, and I still do it for the same reason 20 years later.

What makes a diary so wonderful is that it's a record of how someone pays attention.