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Each morning, instead of becoming frazzled and confused in the face of bad news and disappointments, remember to treat your body like a vast universe of cells seeking new ways to feel electric and alive, new ways to celebrate beauty and courage, new ways to help the vulnerable, new ways to embrace the sublime.
Trust The Joy Inside You
I have a theory about nostalgia : It happens because the best survival strategy in an uncertain world is to overworry. When you look back, you forget about all the things you worried about that never came true. So life appears better in the past because in hindsight there wasn’t as much to worry about as you were actually worrying about at the... See more
Morgan Housel • A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About
‘People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
Laurence Arne-Sayles began with the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The
... See moreRay Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
The terrifying and also mundane forces that press on us every day eventually deceive us into viewing our lives through pessimistic, suspicious eyes. As happiness is treated like a rare luxury and compassion is supplanted by apathy and even brutality, the once-joyful and once-compassionate and once-idealistic among us choose a pose that’s above all... See more
Trust The Joy Inside You
This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
Theory of Other Worlds. Simply put, it said that when knowledge or power went out of this world it did two things: first, it created another place; and second, it left a hole, a door between this world where it had once existed and the new place it had made.