life as it is
Are you actually trying? or you’re not actually trying? maybe only in some areas?
delaying to take an action and being selectively agentic
Your personality isn’t set in stone, it’s not ingrained, you’re changing and you could change anything about yourself if you would like to. your personality is something deeper than preferences. you must abandon your identity.
I grew this peaches and they taste like a summer!!
... See moreThe experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazine, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even a folks who love me the most , because no one has ever lived or will ever live this life I’m attempting to live with my gifts and challenges and the past and the people. Every life is unprecedented experiment. This lif
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you di... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
We get stuck in a holding pattern when we believe there’s only one path, or two, instead of those millions of paths that fork and diverge based on our individual strengths and characters. In some worlds you’re happy and curious and feed the parts that make you fully and idiosyncratically yourself. The parts that seek beauty and truth and goodness a
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