A friend shared this quote by Marilynne Robinson and it continues to stick with me from the NYT Magazine:

The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson

“We were positively encouraged to create for ourselves minds we would want to live with. I had teachers articulate that to me: ‘You have to live with your mind your whole life.’ You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. Nobody has ever said anything more valuable to me.”