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“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

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"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It's a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I'll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it's the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don't like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it's just a really excellent pastime."

— Dean Spade, from his essay For Lovers and Fighters

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September is here. Meaning that you should to start fresh. So change those bed sheets. Switch out that old toothbrush. Get your hoodies and sweaters out. Prepare for a better you. With new goals. And a healthier mindset. I know it’s been hard lately, but use this opportunity to start fresh.

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You might find someone to love, and to be loved by.

Or you might not.

Either way, you are spending the rest of your life in your own company, and you have a duty to make that as pleasant and bearable as may be. 

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Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do

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Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

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Mahmoud Darwish, Life To The Last Drop

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Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

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Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

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James Baldwin.

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musings on august        

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Adrienne Rich, from Twenty-One Love Poems (VIII)

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— Leo Tolstoy

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Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

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Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt

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The Mirror, 1981

Will Barnet

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i get it when people are like "liking obscure music doesn't make you a better person" but curiosity and curation and seeking new things out are good traits and it makes your life more interesting to have your own little things and the most fun you can ever have is creating a personal canon and defending it with your life