Quotes
Updated 1 month ago
Most injuries to our body, to our relationships, to our mental and emotional health, come from rushing. Not from going too fast, but from going faster than we actually want to go.
When I create experiences (spending time with my friends, learning something new, doing new things, going to new places), time moves slower and I remember more of my life.
It is good to fuck up one evening in exchange for knowledge that will pay dividends for the rest of your life.
When you do something that cannot easily be converted into money, you're free. You're cast out into the uselessness and beauty of personal meaning and play
Everything the modern world calls urgent will, given a little time, turn out not to have mattered at all.
I have to let myself be loved. My heart craves it, but my mind fights it, thinks I am inherently undeserving.
Without attention there is no love.
It is equally dangerous at either extreme – to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.
There’s something quite scary about the blur of days that sinks in during a period of depression.
The abundance of things killed all the wanting. And the wanting was, I'm realizing, part of the point.
Eat your breakfast in silent thought, for today a battle may be fought.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I don’t need to know all the news in the world immediately. It’ll get to me when it gets to me.
Memory is a stealthy editor that buries the dread and keeps the soft parts.
When hyper-focused on all these minutiae, there's no room left for worry or overthinking. I just exist, and that is enough.
It's difficult to do something like writing for yourself when you don't actually like yourself.
A good life is one in which things do not go perfectly, but you find a way to have a good day regardless.