self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
The number-one-by-a-mile way that people avoid living their values is by going out into the world and telling everyone else how important those values are and how everyone needs to be living them.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
“It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.” -Norm Macdonald
Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
Renee Solana • Tweet
“To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.”
— Bruce Lee
Jordan Bates on Substack
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you di... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
The more you thank God for the life you have, the more your life starts to look like the one you want.