Thought provoking

I think that part of people's problem is they're not in enough gangs. There's this great tension in life where you desperately want to belong to something else and you want to stand apart at the same time. You want to be special, but you want to be accepted, too.

That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified.

Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”

Émile Zola

I asked him if he really understood that strange dichotomy of being alone but still belonging—of true belonging

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation

Erin Glass twitter.com

In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, scientist Richard Dawkins says,

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly,

"When you catch wind in a bag, it’s no longer wind, it’s lost all its life and is now just stale air."

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”

Murakami

"You are enough, and you always have been."