U Survive Literally Every Single Event In Your Life & Still Every Time A New Event Happens You Feel Like

'La Fille au Casque D’or'

by Bettina Rheims, 2009

I wish it was easier to talk about mobile phone addiction without sounding like a boomer

from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

learning lately that a lot of confidence is about owning up. like "yeah i'm a little addicted to my phone right now" or "yeah i'm not really over this person yet" or "yeah i still get pretty anxious in crowds" just saying anything at all but then following it up w "but i'm trying to get better" and being super nonchalant and unaffected. so powerful. you would literally be undefeatable in the face of even the most judgmental person. no one can judge you for things you already know about yourself and are trying to improve on. the trick is to know yourself from the inside out, to hold yourself accountable, and to actively improve every day. like that is literally the secret to never feeling like you're at the mercy of somebody else's judgment

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

The Swan, Mary Oliver

you can literally say i love you to anyone anywhere anytime ever

youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

The greatest rebellion is becoming self-sufficient, no longer relying on corporations or the government, while building community through bartering, mutual aid, and support.

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