“The more you change, the less you feel”

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

~BONAPARTE, Napoleon.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

~ASIMOV, Issac.

Women are considered fragile but I’ve never seen anything as easily wounded as a man’s ego.

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

–JUNG, Carl Gustav

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.”

—MURAKAMI, Haruki, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The potential you see in other people isn't real. It is the projection of what you would do in their position.

A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

~ROGERS, Carl, On Becoming a Person

“In times of adversity is when it is convenient to observe men, their masks fall off and they show themselves as they are.”

— LUCRETIUS

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.

— EPICTETUS

One day you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin.

—MOON, Shinji, Here’s What Our Parents Never Taught Us

“Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”

- VOLTAIRE, Treatise on Tolerance

“I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed.”

— DAZAI, Osamu, No Longer Human

“An emptiness so vast I can’t tell if I am in it or it in me.”

— JACKSON, Richard, from Elegy Just in Case, Asheville Poetry Review, 2022.

If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our self-improvement.

— RINPOCHE, Trungpa.

"To learn wich questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is the most needful in times of stress and darkness."

― LE GUIN, Ursula K., The Left Hand of Darkness

To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueller than I've been to me.

— MORISSETTE, Alanis, "Sorry to Myself", Under Rug Swept

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

— PLATH, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

do it scared do it weird do it alone. holy trinity.