what "living life to the fullest" looks like
the eulogy values i aspire towards, instructions on how to live life, and more
what "living life to the fullest" looks like
To delight in the contrasts, knowing that they enrich your range and add nuances to your palette. This is a lifelong practice - the art of being with what is. Cultivate it.
What I Want You to Know About Being Alive
Flirt with your life a little. It will flirt back.
Gabrielle Dubois Meloff • How to flirt with your life
if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field.
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
I believe deeply in something like soulmates - a real, mutual, sustaining love. That’s the dream, of course. But the search is hard, as anything worthwhile tends to be, and we have to keep trying.
I think heartbreak deserves less caution than most of us assume. Because love, even when it doesn’t last, is still worth the price of entry. It’s proof... See more
I think heartbreak deserves less caution than most of us assume. Because love, even when it doesn’t last, is still worth the price of entry. It’s proof... See more
the intelligence of desire
bite the peach
Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
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Joy moves like weather, sudden, undeserved, soaking everything it touches.
Most of us hesitate at the threshold, trying to decide if it’s safe to step into the light. But joy doesn’t linger for deliberation. It passes through, brief and dazzling, and what it leaves behind is not possession but trace: the shimmer of having been met.
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maja • too much joy is exactly enough
I want joy to feel like peaches and pomegranates: sticky, luscious, childlike, a reminder that bliss is our default state before we learned to distrust it.
too much joy is exactly enough
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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Stop overanalysing it. Don’t sit inside dwelling on what could go wrong. Don’t psychoanalyse everything to the point you deaden something real. You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life is desirable. But you can’t, and it’s not. If you... See more