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*A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

∆ Claire Schwartz, from “Lecture on Loneliness”
∆ Claire Schwartz, from “Lecture on Lon…
Ryan Molnar
Ryan Molnar
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anna haifisch
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Being Myself, Whether People Accept Me or Not | Lindsay C. Gibson
Being Myself, Whether People Accept Me …

Award-winning painter, Georgia O'Keefe, suggests optimizing for your interests rather than your happiness: "I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary. I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness." Source: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

— James Baldwin, Collected Essays

Vomiting Up All the Filth
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars
i love all my mistakes i had fun
i love all my mistakes i had fun
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