• some rules for teachers (after john cage) x
  • When worrying thoughts begin, I welcome them. As Jalaluddin Rumi says in his poem The Guest House: I “meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.” x
  • this is not your grave, get out of the hole x
      • “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!"
  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough/ to make every hour holy./ ...I want to describe myself/ like a painting that I studied/ closely for a long, long time,/ like a word I finally understood,/ like the pitcher of water I use every day,/ like the face of my mother,/ like a ship/ that carried me/ through the deadliest storm of all. — Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. — Thich Nhat Hanh
  • listen the secret to pulling anything off —be it red lipstick or shaving half your head or wearing something ridiculous- is to literally just fucking do the thing and immediately adopt an attitude of giving no fucks, even if you have to fake it x
  • Consistently sacrificing your health, your well being, your relationships, and your sanity for the sake of living up to impossible standards will lead to some dangerous behaviors and, ironically, a great deal of procrastination. Instead of saying, “I’ll stay up until this is done,” say, “I’ll work until X time and then I’m stopping. I may end up needing to ask for an extension or complete less than perfect work. But that’s OK
  • You think you’ve survived so long that survival shouldn’t hurt anymore ... You are soft and alive. You bruise and heal. Cherish it. It is what you are born to do.
  • Live as if you were living already for the second time. — Viktor Frankl
  • We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love. — Lori Deschene
  • The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now — Chinese Proverb
  • You do not have to be good — Mary Oliver x
  • These are the axes — Mark Aguhar x
  • Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou
  • One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. You have the choice to do what you love or to continue living a life being submissive to the expectations put on you.
jan 4 2014 ∞
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