Quotes
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Don Hertzfeldt on Hunting vs Being Fed
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m…
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Hildegard of Bingen, The Enlightened Heart
Holy Spirit,Giving life to all life,Moving all creatures,Root of all things,Washing them clean,Wiping out their mistakes,Healing their wounds,You are our true life,Luminous, wonderful,Awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. Hildegard of Bingen, The Enlightened Heart
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Elizabeth Oldfield, Soul Work for the End of the World
The reconcilably bittersweet nature of adulthood was suddenly too much. I am purportedly a grown-up, but I don’t know the answers. I feel bone-weary from carrying around heavy things. I hate that monsters exist, and that they often win, and that some of them live in me. Elizabeth Oldfield, Soul Work for the End of…
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Søren Kierkegaard on Walking
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Søren Kierkegaard
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Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
See, that right there is what it’s all about. Laboring in obscurity. Starving and struggling. The man who embraces his mediocre nothingness shines brighter than any. Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
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Robert Capon, Hunting the Divine Fox
Christianity starts by telling you that you have no place left to go because you are already home free, and no favour to earn because God sees you in His beloved Son, and thinks you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread. All you have to do is explore the crazy Mystery of acceptance. Robert Capon,…
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G.K. Chesterton on Adventure
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. G.K. Chesterton
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Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
Del Rey’s best love songs are not obsessive or submissive, they are addictive. They are about craving something when you know it will kill you. Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
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Peter Van Der Merwe, Drones
Of all harmonic devices, it [a drone] is not only the simplest, but probably also the most fertile. Peter Van Der Merwe
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Graham Isador, Men are Lonely, So Why is it so Hard For Them to Make Friends
When trying to meet new people, one of the best ways to succeed is a sustained effort and participating in tasks you are already drawn towards. … If I were giving advice to a young guy, I’d say find the thing that you can see yourself really enjoying regardless of the outcome. Then do these…