• “It seems we don’t know how to love the ones we love until they disappear from our lives.”

    —Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

  • In time I recognized this, that I was lonely, and that my loneliness was entirely self-inflicted, but by the time I did I couldn’t do anything about it. I felt weighed down by some kind of heavier gravity. I felt like a satellite that’d fallen out of orbit — slowly drifting away into darkness, further and further away from the place I used to be.

    The Irony Of Loneliness, By Daniel Moore

  • You can’t resent other people because you let yourself down. But you can try.

    —John Tottenham

  • “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in … but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

    —Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • No one should be burdened with the “failure” label just for playing their hand in the grand game of life. It’s undeniable that some people have the fortune to start with a strong hand, graced with physical beauty, social grace, or remarkable talents. Or, perhaps, they simply emerged from the right door, under the right star.

    Bimbo Ubermensch
    The Ocean

  • We all have value. 

    We all contribute. We all give back—if not through paid work, then as part of the human ecosystem. 

    “All Parasites Have Value:” Why Valuing Those Who Don’t Work is Key to More Sustainable Work Practices for Those Who Do

  • However, I know that it is not because of your strength, your long hours of studying, or your own understanding that you passed this milestone, but it was through God’s great strength and blessings that you succeeded. Do you also believe this?

    —Fr. Mina the Hermit (Pope Kyrillos VI) to his nephew Hegumen Philemon Labib

    via Pope Kyrillos: The Patron and Beloved of the Children, Fr. Rafael Ava Mina

  • Perfect Days (2023)

  • Sam Fender – People Watching

  • Love in the Afternoon (1972)