A ludicrous amount of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind, but yeah don't worry you're different

I find it manipulative that our angry side is always seen as our "true colors" as if being happy and kind means we're fake.

“tú para mí lo fuiste todo, pero seguro yo para tí solo fuí una experiencia”

—Reinterpretación de una frase que leí hace tiempo, quién sabe dónde, y que quedó grabada en mi mente

Do nada, pensando aqui na expressão “matar as saudades”. Um sentimento tão profundo que não basta acabar com ele, desfazê-lo, é preciso assassiná-lo. Talvez seja o melhor dos crimes. E o português, a melhor das línguas.

Creatures with such a luxury of time on their hands can afford to take things at a leisurely pace.

I’ve just started Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, and I can’t get enough of Tim Flannery’s introduction. He writes:

“One reason that many of us fail to understand trees is that they live on a different time scale than us. One of the oldest... See more

Proof that the world is stranger than we think.

Ecologists have found that trees send tiny electrical pulses through their roots when they are stressed or cut, and nearby trees register those signals within minutes. Entire groves shift their chemistry in response. In one particularly cool example, the saliva of leaf-eating insects is sensed by the... See more

Say it with me:

“It feels scary because it’s unfamiliar, not because I’m incapable.”

You only need 1 hour.

1 hour of building. 1 hour of writing. 1 hour of lifting. 1 hour of studying. 1 hour of anything but distracting yourself from the life you are trying to change.

1 hour feels like nothing until you look back 365 hours later and everything's changed.

Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let people be in charge of themselves. If they have something to say to you, they will. And if they don't, it's their responsibility, not yours.