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Life is not about one obstacle, but many. What’s required of us is not some shortsighted focus on a single facet of a problem, but simply a determination that we will get to where we need to go, somehow, someway, and nothing will stop us. We will overcome every obstacle—and there will be many in life—until we get there. Persistence is an action.
... See moreRyan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.
You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.
What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts
Healing from avoidant attachment is not just gaining the ability to be in relationship, it's gaining the ability to be in relationship with someone you see as your true equal (no bullshitting here) and whom you do not have significant, inherent power over.
x.com"Take a walk at night. Walk so slowly that the bottoms of your feet become ears." Alexandra Horowitz via Russell Davies.
Even in the midst of civil strife and hard conversations, I try to return to the great humanistic declaration made by the Roman dramatist Terence: “I am human, and nothing human is alien to me.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Walking itself has not changed the world, but walking together has been a rite, tool and reinforcement of the civil society that can stand up to violence, to fear, and to repression.