I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 111 strategy.
Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard. You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.