Words to Live By

[words2liveby]

“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”

- Mary Kate Teske

[charliejaneanders]

Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.

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[s-leary]

If the phrase “vocational awe” isn’t part of your lexicon yet, stop scrolling and read Fobazi Ettarh:

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

—Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

I see it in every field I’ve ever worked in: publishing, open source software development, higher education. It describes pretty much every industry that relies on creativity, altruism, or both.

[shithowdy]

"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media

[roycohns]

i love when. poems are. ❣️🌷💖

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}

[thereadmind]

[thehmn]

I want to apologize to my friends and family who have children for low key treating their kids like dogs but the standard methods for training dogs are even more effective of them because they actually understand language and are better at reasoning.

Positive reinforcement is amazingly effective, like I saw my nephew poking their cat so I sternly told him no, he stopped and I immediately changed my demeanor and cheerfully told him thank you and how happy I was that he listened to me instead of staying angry at him and he got this strange “Oh…It actually does make a difference wether I’m naughty or not” and later my sister in law asked why he’s so polite around me.

That’s literally what works best on dogs. Let them know when you don’t like what they’re doing but also let them know when you’re happy with them even if that means changing your demeanor on a dime (and even if you’re still a bit mad at them for doing it in the first place).

Oh and little treats. I skipped the aunt phase and is already turning into a grandma who has candy in her pockets for the kiddos for good behavior.

[quotemadness]

Time always exposes what you mean to someone.

Unknown

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[tinyghosts]

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”

– Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

[perfectquote]

“I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.”

— Paulo Coelho

[catboy-joyfriend]

how r u gonna call them love handles and then try to convince ppl thats a bad thing. insane to me

[pankomako]

[eternatuslesbian-deactivated202]

ID: Tumblr tags that read, "#love handles... happy trails... smiles lines... #they are all colors in the rainbow of bodily perfection" End ID

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mary Kate Teske

[wheres-the-bear]

I'm convinced it is fear put into action.

[herssian]

ugly art, anatomically wrong art, no proper values art, uninspired art, half-finished, artblock-filled art is still art. your self-hatred has no power in removing what is. there’ll be no burial for what’s not stopped breathing

[dimpledthings]

i know you’re finding life hard at the moment, but you’re doing amazingly. you can and will get through this