Thomas Unterkircher
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Thomas Unterkircher
- Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See morefrom Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
maybe this ache in my chest is actually the feeling of my heart growing stronger from its battles.
louise kaufmann
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
from The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it in the last couple years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is merely to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and
... See morefrom The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
Kiki turned to her husband with a thesis for a face, of which only Howard could know every line and reference.
from On Beauty by Zadie Smith
He kisses - how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
from Less by Andrew Sean Greer
We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents.
from Greenwood by Michael Christie
“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul
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