Thomas Unterkircher

@tomchen

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 more
from Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"
from Tweet by Azlen
How to internet
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
inspiring
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
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from The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
On being
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
On love
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
On love
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
On being
Ask yourself, next time you’re doing something enjoyable: are you really surrendering to the full enjoyment available here? The answer will often be no. Perhaps this has something to do with how displays of rapturous delight are often discouraged in adolescence.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
Personal Growth
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Personal Growth

from Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed

from Tweet by Azlen

from The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

from The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

from On Beauty by Zadie Smith

from Less by Andrew Sean Greer

from Greenwood by Michael Christie

from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin