let me play the lion too

"And up from my rotting corpse, trees and plants and flowers will grow, and the sun will warm them and I will be in them, and nothing will perish; that is immortality."

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: μελίγλωσσος (meliglōssos), honey-tongued

[red-lamb]

[bergamotbarbie]

I will be rewarded for my efforts. I am laboring under correct conditions

[redlipstickresurrected]

Endre Penovác aka Эндре Пеновац (Serbian, b. 1956, Tornjoš, Serbia and Montenegro) - Stretching, 2017, Paintings: Ink on Paper

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[philosophybits]

“No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.”

— Albert Camus, The Rebel

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Margaret Llewyn Davis, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[philosophybits]

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”

— Seneca, On Providence

[podencos]

Simone Weil

[artemisiasea]

From “Forms of the Implicit Love of God”, Waiting on God

[philosophybits]

“Do what nature demands. Get a move on — if you have it in you — and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (9.29)

[achillesinhighheels]

not now bro i’m accepting things i cannot change

[aligning-and-attracting]

Having no sense of urgency isn’t normal; there are things you should be handling as soon as they come to you, and there are things you need to be actively aware of and taking care of. By having no sense of urgency, believing a higher power will handle something, ignoring the obvious, or leaving things until the last minute, you make your life significantly more difficult than it would be otherwise. I also think that you have to be able to rely on yourself, and by consistently holding off from doing things, you make yourself unreliable in your own mind. One might think that they fail at everything they do because they’re not skilled enough, but many a time, it’s because they leave things for way too late. Get in the habit of doing things promptly, get in the habit of answering emails and doing work projects/assignments swiftly, get in the habit of asking questions if you're confused, and get in the habit of being able to depend on yourself to get things done and never look back. If you can’t rely on yourself and handle business, you’re missing out on opportunities.



[fortuneaday]

[wildestlovers]

embarrassment is the cost of entry.

if you aren't willing to look like a foolish beginner, you'll never become a graceful master.

[philosophybits]

“Decay, growth, fullness, emptiness, now murky, now bright, the sun shifting, the moon changing phase — day after day these things proceed… Life has its sproutings, death its destination, end and beginning tail one another in unbroken round, and no one has ever heard of their coming to a stop.”

— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 21)

[soracities]

Mia Mingus, from "Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability" [ID'd]

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

— Franz Kafka