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."

[angelicdewdrop]

[philosophybits]

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

[magdaleneanthony]

«  she should be in the club » everyone knows your late twenties are for becoming increasingly offputtingly religious

[transiting]

don’t make other people’s decisions for them. apply for the job you don’t think you’ll get. let them decide if you have the skills they’re looking for. tell that person you like them even though you think they’re out of your league. let them decide if they like you. stop trying to predict and control everything. bring what you have to the table. let the rest go.

[philosophybits]

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.7)

[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1947

[psychicmermaid]

either i win or i learn

[morphic-mythos]

The Greek for “divine possession” is enthusiasmos—enthusiasm. To be enthused or enthusiastic is to be “engodded,” to be divinely inspired.

—Stephen Fry, Mythos

[artemisiasea]

I love waiting, I love evolution, I love feedback, I love discipline, I love silence, I love tension, I love solitude, I love creative work, I love ritual

[stalgivc]

find opportunities accept rejection and do it all over again

[reader-twisted]

[shisasan]

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)

[gospel-art-project]

[terpsikeraunos]

“Lying Odysseus replied, ‘I will tell you the truth completely.’”

— Odyssey 24.303-4, trans. Emily Wilson

[recondita]

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”