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We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve.

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I might be awake, but I don’t feel alive.

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1. Meg Day 2. Haruki Murakami 3. Edouard Labrosse 4. Rainer Maria Rilke 5. Ron Hicks 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Joan Didion 8. Ron Hicks 9. Sylvia Plath 10. Anne Magill 11. Franz Kafka 12. Peter Wever 13. Vi Khi Nao 14. Peter Wever 15. Anna Akhmatova

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I’m often silent when I’m screaming inside.

(via emptystic)

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“Courage is nothing more than taking one more step than you think you can.”

—Holly Lisle

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life |  @louderminds (via louderminds)

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Come out of hiding (2020)

Quote by Irisa Yardenah. 

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Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

— Audre Lorde

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I’m wanting to discuss in depth why “people have always been the same” is a super important thing that needs to be general knowledge among us, not just a funny adage about human nature pertaining to ancient dick jokes.

I think I could split it up into a set of general principles:

History is not a continuous straight line of progress toward better, kinder, more moral, or better informed societies

We are not (inherently) more rational than people throughout history

We are not (inherently) more capable of understanding right and wrong than people throughout history

“People” did not “believe x” before y happened because diverse and dissenting beliefs and opinions have always existed and some people have always sometimes questioned what they know and what they think of as normal and critiqued ideas they disagreed with

Similarly, “we” do not “know better” than the Ignorant people Back Then because everyone’s ideas are still influenced by assumptions they don’t question

tl;dr a source that universally generalizes people “back then” and contrasts it to people “now” is probably not giving you the whole story unless they’re talking about a technological development or scientific discovery that literally didn’t exist until a certain point and even then it’s iffy

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“Come home to my heart.”

— Lorde

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