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If you wanna see beauty, you gotta go where the beauty resides.
Take a second look at the butterfly you pass on the sidewalk. Pause to notice the polka dot pattern on its body. Live in slow motion. Put yourself in an environment to discover the beauty. You won’t find butterflies in houses or restaurants. If you wanna see beauty, you gotta go where
... See moreJust as day is joined to night, so does the year have its seams.’
Hannah Kent • The Good People
Our crossing is a brief one, best spent bearing witness to all that we see: honoring what we find noble, tending what we know needs our care, recognizing that we are inseparably connected to all of it, including what is not yet upon us, including what is already gone. We are here to keep watch, not to keep.
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to
... See moreOctavia E. Butler • Parable of the Talents
“Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind.”
—Epictetus