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a letter to students,

because I need it right now. your worth is not your grades. an assignment is not worth sacrificing your mental health. your body, your mind, is the only one of its kind, and it shouldn't be given up for an A that'll get lost to time. because grades will be lost to time, but you won't be. you have so many years ahead of you—and if you look back on yourself now, you want to see someone happy.

yes, it's always nice to do well. yes, what you do now will affect your future.

but what you do now will affect your future. if this is your one chance, go: go live, and laugh, and eat foods that you enjoy, and make friends and fall in love with the world. grades are important, but happiness is more.

all I'm saying is that focus on yourself as much as you do your work. one day you'll look back and be grateful for it.

and most of all, I love you. don't forget that.

<3

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“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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Getting rid of twitter and going back to a calm place hahaha. It isn't?

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— I always thought that it was a phrase from a song.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via quotespile)

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Muy claro!

“Don’t be the reason someone feels insecure. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard and supported.”

— Cleo Wade

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Origin of envy.

“Without form there is no desire. Without desire there is tranquility. And in this way all things would be at peace.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 37)

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“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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True.

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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The eternal pursue.

“Bearing without possession, achieving without arrogance, raising without domination. This is called the mystic virtue.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Lin tr. (Ch 10)

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“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or The New Heloise

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“Education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

— John Dewey, “My Pedagogic Creed”, The Early Works, vol 5

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“One must really be a great man to be able to make a stand even against common sense.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Unlocking the Air (via quotespile)

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“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”

— Socrates, in Plato’s Crito

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Voided

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina