sparks
don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.
Reading as a default state
The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a... See more
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection
you don’t need to know who you are to become an artist. art molds us into the shape it wants us to be and the thing that serves it best.
Me-As-A-Service
I keep hearing a voice in my head that says, “The second half of your life doesn’t have to look anything like the first half of your life. The first half was bound; the second half is free.” Free, free, ever more free. Free from my own distorted thinking, free from any lingering shame and fear and resentments, free from expectations. This what I... See more
Sari Botton • This is 54: Author Elizabeth Gilbert Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
”Once you do one thing, if you have a modicum of success, and you think you can do a second, third and fourth thing, you’re wrong. You can’t.”
-Micheal Saylor, via Laser Eyes
“So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” While
I met some of my heroes and some of them sucked; I attended events that were hollow and demented but looked fun online; I eventually realized the best parts of my life weren’t exclusive whatsoever but run-of-the-mill: a result not of being elevated above my peers (on a stage, say) but thrust among them (in the crowd). In time I came to see these... See more