Things that make you go Hmmmm
by @Lumi · updated 8d ago
Things that make you go Hmmmm
- In this country ... if you’re an artist, you’re guilty of a crime: not that you’re aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don’t admit are there.
from The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
- You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we unde... See more
from The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
- As Maya Angelou famously advised, when people tell you who they are, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absol... See more
from 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
- Don’t be afraid to be an idealist. There is much to be said for our responsibility as creators and consumers of that constant dynamic interaction we call culture — which side of the fault line between catering and creating are we to stand on? The commercial enterprise is conditioning us to believe that the road to success is paved with catering to ... See more
from 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
- In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we would... See more
from 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
Everything is eventually recompensed, every effort of the heart eventually requited, though not always in the form you imagined or hoped for. What redeems all of life’s disappointments, what makes all of its heartbreaks bearable, is the ability to see how the dissolution of a dream becomes the fertile compost of possibility. Buried between parenthe
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@Lumi added 8d ago
- 18. How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are. Everything in life is a subset of one or a combinatorial function of all three. Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. (Only strong people are safe people, the measure of strength being not the absence ... See more
from 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian by Maria Popova
@Lumi added 8d ago
Here is the thing: every technique, approach, tool, tip, and process, if not embodied, will only yield disappointment and more exhaustion.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
@Lumi added 5mo ago
- I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
from Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
@Lumi added 6mo ago