Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
Thomas Unterkircher
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
- 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
- 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.
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
- There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and help other people feel as though you’re aware of them .
from Three types of kindness by Seth Godin
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
- People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
from Tweet by Joe Hudson
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