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-Joyce Carol Oates

“Our pining for belonging can do frenetic things to the soul. We can become so desperate for connection that we make havoc from all the hungry parts of ourselves. It makes us restless. It can make us consume others instead of embrace them. Maybe we habitually ignore the boundaries of friend because we fear absence will end in abandonment. Or we make unhealthy demands of relationships to satisfy our own insecurities, desperate for affirmation. Solitude can be a profound teacher. It can teach us how to hold ourselves—how to affirm ourselves and listen. How much is the sound of your own voice worth? And yet, we were made for belonging. Maybe you’ve heard it said that you need to learn how to be alone before you can be with someone. I say you have to learn how to be with and a part of something in order to know how to be alone.”

— Cole Arthur Riley, from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us (Hodder & Stoughton , 2022)

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— Emil M. Cioran, from “The Trouble with Being Born.”

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Senpai says you’re welcome

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Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

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There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

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