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What a wild time to be alive.

One side thinks it's the golden age, and the other is convinced it's a dark age. It really makes you see how we can live in completely different realities depending on how we perceive the world. Our mind truly creates the world.

Laura Matsue Guenther
if your parents aren't deeply confused by what you're doing with your life, you’re playing it too safe

Unknown
The thing I find saddest about our era is how few people seem interested in learning, their lack of openness to things unfamiliar, their incuriosity towards history, books, film. There's so much joy in studying the past, in great works of art, in letting yourself be astonished.

In reading the words of ordinary people from a hundred years ago I'm amazed by their vocabulary, their range of cultural references, their casual erudition. Encountering the eloquence of soldiers in the trenches feels like a vanished world. We have lost so much.

Boze
The good news is that the renaissance is coming!

So many people are going back to handwriting, talking to strangers offline, and connecting more deeply with their existing relationships.

People are pivoting or trying out new careers, designing personal curriculums based on intellectual curiosity.

I can’t wait to hear the new literature, poems, films, and projects that will come out of this time.

Shae O.
This has happened to everyone of us. I'm sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

Unknown
somewhere between the chasing and the losing, we learn to settle for what feels safe instead of what feels right, even when it cages us. most people spend their whole life that way, suspended in moments they could’ve, should’ve gone for it. i think that’s my biggest fear. i just want my soul to walk away heavier with something to show for it, with more truth than longing.

jericho
Being a writer is mostly resisting the urge to start something new instead of finishing the thing that you’ve been putting off for most of your life.

Unknown
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Erich Fromm
Someone is still listening to the music you've shown them.

Unknown
I’m tired of living through historical events. We could’ve all happily been living in nature eating fruits and swimming in the sea but no a small percentage of the world’s population wanted to see what life would look like if we were all stressed, angry, struggling and anxious.

Karim Wafa
If you feel like you're losing everything remember that trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.

Japanese Proverb
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Come on, better days! *Rolling**Rolling*
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell
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I've been considered eccentric most of my life and I wear that shirt like a badge.
The magic in your childhood wasn't because you were a child, it was because you were living in the present.

Unknown
Our entire society should be organized around children because everyone is a child once and humans have really long childhoods and a good childhood creates a well-adjusted adult which creates a better society.

Nergiz
A habit worth building:

Tell people the specific impact they had on you. Not "thanks for everything." But, “the way you handled that meeting taught me confidence."

Specific recognition changes lives. Generic praise is forgotten. Most people have no idea what they do well. Show them. It costs nothing and matters everything.

Unknown
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Come to think of it, that's good advice for reviewers here.
Specificity is always more effective, whether it be fact or fiction.
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