Melissa
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Melissa
The world pushes us with no mercy and when some push back, the world points and cries EVIL. - Mewtwo
Often it's something we've been avoiding for years, something we would never willingly face unless overwhelming events compelled us to.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
“The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion of shared humanity. I refuse to indulge in the despair that accepts the logic of the enemies of mankind."
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her
... See moreIt is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.
Maria Popova • Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
As Henry Miller once said, “You will learn to write only when you stop trying to write. A line without effort is worth a chapter of push and pull.”
“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
– Henry Miller
– Henry Miller