compiled things

i appreciate you

and the gentle sort of pain that follows you is just the part of you that is still listening to the music. dont let go of it if you dont have to. dont leave it all behind.

the door is right in front of you and it opens if you turn the handle.

it's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate, it takes guts to be gentle and kind

from the web

everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. we will never be here again.

there is no path to happiness. happiness is the path.

the wound is where the light enters you.

if you really love something, set it free. if it comes back, it's yours forever. if it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.

let pain sharpen you, but dont hold on to it. dont be bitter.

take a look around and appreciate it. nothing will be the same in a year.

i opened my mouth, almost said something. almost. the rest of my light might have turned out differently if i had. but i hadnt.

what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. the forest is forever because it dies and dies and so it lives.

the world is cruel; therefore, i wont be.

never put to tomorrow what can be done today.

what now

we take for granted how the way we are makes people comfortable, and if we dare to change that, it changes how people feel in relation to us.

the most wonderful things that will happen to you in your life are inconvenient.

i become calm in chaos, because my life was chaos.

how many people can say their opinions of a group of people are based on actual experiences?

sometimes you meet someone and you're similar but not the same, and there's this comedic undercurrent that connects you

action precedes motivation. dont rely on random spurts of inspiration to maintain habits.

in life there will always be storms. but you will never live a full life if you don't realize when you are in between storms.

birds migrate because if they stay, then they'll suffer. so they go towards the pain of migrating to avoid the suffering. suffering can be a medication; take it in doses. pain is what you go through when you walk away from the suffering. pain is inevitable and suffering can be a choice.

when we start looking at people, events, time, objects, our bodies, as an accelerant for us to remember who we really are and what we're here to do, then life becomes this journey where regret doesn't exist. because everything that happened that i didn't enjoy was accelerating me to my growth. and why would i hate something that made me grow?

normal people

it was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.

aphorisms

a reputation is harmed most by what you say to defend it

you don't become free by just avoiding to be a slave, you also need to avoid becoming a master. nelson mandela

the tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control, and, what's worse, the opposite.

mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undetected, and undetectable order; but order itself is indistinguishable from artful randomness.

they agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills

upon arriving at the hotel, the businessman had a porter carry his luggage; i later saw the businessman lifting free weights in the gym

anyone voicing a forecast or expressing an opinion without something at risk has some element of phoniness

for the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for us, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

what makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues - honor, truthfulness, courage, loyalty, tenacity - as individuals

one of the failures of "scientific approximation" in the nonlinear domain comes from the inconvenient fact that the average of expectations is different from the expectation of averages.

fake humility is worse than arrogance