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Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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.
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.
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.
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.
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.