On Existence
“Whenever I get asked to do a project, I always think of it as an opportunity to promote my values.”
– Rick Owens
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps... See more
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
I cry a lot these days. In no particular direction.
Courtnee Futch from With Love & Butter • I Am Terrified of Who I'm Becoming. Honesty & Other Musings
On becoming emotional...ly intelligent.
I've cried more in the past couple months... years than in my whole life. In both all directions and none at all.
Over heartbreak. Over gratitude. Over disappointment. Over forgiveness. Over anger and bitterness. Over past trauma. Over future anxiety (is that one and the same?)
One of my favorite pieces of modern wisdom ever uttered comes from Jim Carrey:
“I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion ... No matter what you gain, ego will not let you rest. He will tell you that you cannot stop u... See more
Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale
“Rituals stabilize life by structuring time.”
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostl
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