If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.
If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
I've been making shoes my whole life.
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.