Thoughts I Return To

thoughts, ideas, musings i want to return to

“Everything we make, everything we do, is a bid for bearing our transience.” —Maria Popova

I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy.

I have noticed several times that it is to beginners that strange things happen, and often, I think, to beginners only.

Robert Aickman, Cold Hand in Mine

"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert

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alpha overheard in a Trader Joe’s: “bro? what’s the point of making 6 figures if you don’t buy your gf flowers from time to time?”

“We attract what we are, not what we want.”

cut your words in half

“Our destiny is in the stars, even if we have to launch from the ashes of a world.”

― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”

― John O'Donohue