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Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you whether you are.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fuelled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible – the quest to become the optimised, infinitely capable,
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
We are not at the center of anything; thankfully. We are miniscule bundles of evanescent matter on an infinitesimal corner of a boundless universe. We do not count one bit in the grander scheme. This is a liberation.
The School of Life • Eight Rules of The School of Life - The School of Life
School of Life
When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is, the sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
Maria Popova • Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom
Joseph Brodsky
The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction
the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.
Song by Allen Ginsberg • Read A Little Poetry
Allen Ginsberg
An average email or line of code is fine. Average art isn’t.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Frank Chimero
Life itself is a quotation.
The Quotations Page: Quote from Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
East of Eden Quotes by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Anger, like love, can be useful: it is a shield against further harm, a defense against erasure. It is a weapon that tears down the curtains of myth and sentiment. It is the refusal to be forgotten, even as each new generation tries so hard to forget.
We were angry
Mandy Brown