to affirm meaning
to hear a melody and set the notes down for a string quartet (to make), is to affirm meaning, despite all the ambiguities and tragedies and misunderstanding which surrounds us
Madeleine L’Engle
you must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don’t let that concern you. It’s your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
Tchekov
Nice.
Reminds me of 1Thess4:11, “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you.”