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- Keep your eyes on your own paper. Every single one of us is unique. Bring that uniqueness to life.
from Martha Graham on the Hidden Danger of Comparing Yourself to Others by James Clear
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
- Desire (as opposed to need) is an intellectual appetite for things that you perceive to be good, but that you have no physical, instinctual basis for wanting – and that’s true whether those things are actually good or not.
from How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides by Aeon
Lael Johnson added 2d ago
- The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way that they’ve been hijacked as ideological programs of cultural change by many elite universities. I mean humanities broadly understood as the exploration of what it truly means to be human and the sk... See more
from A Bull Market in the Humanities
Lael Johnson added 15h ago
- I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that eclip... See more
from Check your Pulse #49 by Sari Azout
Lael Johnson added 15h ago
Lael Johnson added 5d ago
- “No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
— Daniel KahnemanLael Johnson added 3d ago
- “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
—James Baldwinfrom Tweet by Tara Skurtu
Lael Johnson added 12d ago
- We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
from Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity by Sindhu Shivaprasad
Lael Johnson added 5h ago
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
from Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago