Authenticity
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is ... See more
andrea added 9mo ago
- What I want to say most is that I am not an improved or better version of myself than I was a year ago because that is no longer a goal — but I am a truer version, a closer-in version, a more expansive and open version, a less clinging-to-certainty version, and that, to me, counts for a lot more than seeking to endlessly upgrade myself.
andrea added 9mo ago
the goal is not to optimize yourself, it’s to get closer to yourself
- To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishmentfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
rob hardy added 1y ago
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camusfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
rob hardy added 1y ago
- learning how to write was very much like learning how to live: it all begins by listening to your inner voice and honoring it.
Living is as much a craft as is writing. There are rules and frameworks one can follow, but ultimately, one must define and cultivate one’s own style.from Surrender control over your stories by Ashley Zhang
sari added 1y ago
- “It seems to me,” the puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, etc.) said, “that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” Don’t hide it. Embrace it. Express it. Manifest it through your discipline. Say it out loud
andrea added 8mo ago
Pretty much everything in life is like this: there are some ways you can show up that just feel better. And when you show up for the truest and most beautiful version of your life that you can imagine, you feel excited and alive.
from Not Disappointing Myself by Ava
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- “[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished things that we all actually like in the right context.
The reason we like the Velvet Underground is not for their gloss. It's for their roughness. For the feeling we ha... See moreandrea added 10mo ago
Brian Eno on why we’re drawn to the new and authentic