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Don’t hold on. — That is all.
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The tech platforms aren’t like the Medici in Florence, or those other rich patrons of the arts. They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.
Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture, 2024
The best way to complain is to make things better.
Seth Godin • Complaints
Arenius
In the sun-scorched sands of the fifth century Egyptian desert, lived a man named Arenius. Determined to carve a path towards a holy life, he abandoned the bustling streets of Alexandria, its markets filled with trinkets and treasures, for the stark and solemn embrace of the desert. He traded the comfort of silken sheets for a rough straw ma
... See more“Be grateful for triggers, they point to where you are not free.” ~Unknown
Your triggers are your responsibility. I know, it doesn’t land so nicely, does it? But it’s the truth. The moment you truly understand this, you let others off the hook and you’re able to actually see triggers as gifts pointing to where you’re not whole.
Rosalie Davis • How Our Emotional Triggers Can Actually Be Great Gifts
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Interwoven conversations among four friends explore the complexities and nuances of love, ranging from its beauty and joy to its darker and destructive manifestations.
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still one of my favorite lines of all time:
and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowski
