A New Chapter @stephseveca - Tumblr Blog

A lot of people don't let themselves be wrong or learn anything new. The moment something challenges what they already believe, they get defensive instead of curious. Being wrong is how you grow but it’s perceived as a threat when you’re looking at things from survival. Every belief you have today exists because at some point you realized your old one was incomplete. If you're never willing to question yourself, you stop evolving. The smartest people aren't the ones who are always right. They're the ones who are willing to change their minds when they're presented with better or event new information, no matter how impossible it sounds, no matter what they were taught decades ago, and no matter what society currently believes

thehopefulquotes

“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”

— James Hillman

papayajuan2019

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

derelicthousefootage

chilewithcarnage

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

transchakotay

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

xic4-4

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."

- Vincent van Gogh