It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
Make life your playground, not your battlefield.
You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?
If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.
When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner. " And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically. " And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.