on life
It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.
– Brianna Wiest
‘Make no effort to join society. Stay right where you are and wait for society to form around you. Because it most certainly will.’
Jo Tinsley • The Odditorium
Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing.
"Caring about everything is a disaster.
Caring about nothing is also a disaster.
Nurture the small pocket of things that truly matter to you."
Caring about nothing is also a disaster.
Nurture the small pocket of things that truly matter to you."
3-2-1: On magic bullets, how to handle criticism, and what to let go of this year
- I know that freedom is earned by confronting things that embarrass and trigger you, over and over again, until you are cringe-proof in your desired environment.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
... See more“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To
Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other."