But being honest in my work and life has kind of set me free. I'm so much more than my pain. Oh my god, I sound like my therapist! Call her, she can vouch that I'm doing great.
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.
