Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
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... See more
"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... See more
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
Die Nähe zwischen uns entstand nicht durch die Dinge, die wir miteinander gemacht hatten, sondern im Miteinanderreden und in dem, was wir wegließen.
Martin Kordić • Jahre Mit Martha
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.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
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.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less
We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents.
Michael Christie • Greenwood
“Marriage always reminds me of that old saying about democracy,” I told him. “It’s the worst form of government, other than all the other forms of government.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner • Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
Let yourself be exactly as you are. Ridiculous, magnificent, tender, utterly human. What is a practice even for, if it doesn't bring us into contact with that?
Jeff Warrensubstack.com