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Oh, you know, you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life.

Ocean Vuong
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens
The most dangerous form of racism is the one that believes it has already ended.

Karim Wafa
Ego says,

"Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace."

Spirit says,

"Find your peace, an then everything will fall into place."

Marianne Williamson
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Need to remember that!
Stop keeping everything in your head.

I'm serious. Every time you solve a problem and don't document how, you're basically deleting that knowledge for everyone else (especially future you who forgets things).

Write down your thinking. Capture your process. Record your reasoning.

Your expertise should outlive your memory.

Mara
You can always find time to write. Anybody who says he can’t is living under false pretenses. To that extent depend on inspiration. Don’t wait. When you have an inspiration put it down. Don’t wait until later and when you have more time and then try to recapture the mood and add flourishes. You can never recapture the mood with the vividness of its first impression.

William Faulkner
What a wild time to be alive.

One side thinks it's the golden age, and the other is convinced it's a dark age. It really makes you see how we can live in completely different realities depending on how we perceive the world. Our mind truly creates the world.

Laura Matsue Guenther
if your parents aren't deeply confused by what you're doing with your life, you’re playing it too safe

Unknown
The thing I find saddest about our era is how few people seem interested in learning, their lack of openness to things unfamiliar, their incuriosity towards history, books, film. There's so much joy in studying the past, in great works of art, in letting yourself be astonished.

In reading the words of ordinary people from a hundred years ago I'm amazed by their vocabulary, their range of cultural references, their casual erudition. Encountering the eloquence of soldiers in the trenches feels like a vanished world. We have lost so much.

Boze
The good news is that the renaissance is coming!

So many people are going back to handwriting, talking to strangers offline, and connecting more deeply with their existing relationships.

People are pivoting or trying out new careers, designing personal curriculums based on intellectual curiosity.

I can’t wait to hear the new literature, poems, films, and projects that will come out of this time.

Shae O.
This has happened to everyone of us. I'm sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

Unknown
somewhere between the chasing and the losing, we learn to settle for what feels safe instead of what feels right, even when it cages us. most people spend their whole life that way, suspended in moments they could’ve, should’ve gone for it. i think that’s my biggest fear. i just want my soul to walk away heavier with something to show for it, with more truth than longing.

jericho
Being a writer is mostly resisting the urge to start something new instead of finishing the thing that you’ve been putting off for most of your life.

Unknown
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Erich Fromm
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