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[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Give a man free sex, entertainment, and comfort, and he’ll forget his goals.

Give him pain and heartbreak, and he’ll feel like conquering the world.

Dear bro, hard times are a blessing, not a curse.

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

These might impossible because you were trained that love means shrinking waiting, proving. You weren't born a chaser You were conditioned into one by someone who never had to meet you halfway

That's the trap they convinced you that wanting basic reciprocity made you "too much."

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

My best work came out of the worst years of my life, and that annoys me because i dont want that to be true, but it is. comfort made me stupid, gave me the illusion i had time to think and plan. when i was broke and scared i actually made things, because there was nothing else to do with my fear.

But the catch is, you have to remember you have work. most people in suffering just suffer, they forget they have hands. suffering doesnt produce a fucking thing on its own, its raw energy with no direction. the genius is the idiot who remembered to sit down

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

There is a Japanese legend that says:
if you miss the bus, maybe you avoided the accident. If you got rejected, maybe you were saved from the wrong place. If they left, maybe they made room for who is coming. The universe protects you in ways that look like bad luck at first. Trust the detour.🍂

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Honestly the easiest way to know if a man is any good is just watch what happens to his face when someone mentions his mother. that's it. ive been wrong about people a thousand times but never once about this. the ones who go soft are safe. the ones who go hard or go blank you need to be careful with. honor thy father and thy mother for there is no love in you that did not first pass through them

[Jillian Turecki @JillianTurecki]

Modern love:

“I love you. Which means it’s your job to manage my insecurities, avoid anything that triggers me, meet all my needs, and never disappoint me. And if you can’t do that, then you’re the problem.”

[ирис @saltwatermp3]

And for my next trick I will call my life beautiful and watch it instantly become so

[🎭 @deepfates]

There will not be a "last summer". There will not be a "permanent underclass". There will not be "human extinction". There will not be "endless suffering".

We are going to make it. Not because it's easy, but because it's possible. Because we can. Because we care enough to try

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

“All addictions are a low level search for God.”

- Carl Jung

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.

[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

In the beginning was the.... Word, you say?

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I used to watch good people and pity them. they were so careful with others, so deliberate in their kindness, and it went unrewarded every time. the cruel ones got the promotions, the clever ones took their ideas. the world seemed designed to punish goodness and reward the exact opposite. that was all there was to it, it was a law, as immutable as anything i could observe.

Until enough time passed, maybe five years, maybe ten, and i check back in, and the clever cruel ones are sitting in some kitchen alone, looking old. and the good ones walk into a room and you can feel everybody soften. they didn't win anything you can measure, but people are glad they're alive. and no amount of success has ever replicated that. and it made me realize i didn't understand what fruit meant. i was looking for the wrong crop

[autist @litteralyme0]

How it feels trying to talk to someone who lives life on victim mode and takes everything as a personal attack

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code in life: Understanding you can reinvent yourself at any time. New habits, new standards, new friend group, new career, etc. There's no rule that says you have to stay the person you've always been. You're allowed to decide... "I'm done being this version of me."

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I've been paying attention to this for years and i'm convinced now that modern architecture is hostile on purpose. walk into any office building built after 1970 and pay attention to what happens to your breathing. the ceilings are exactly low enough to make you feel compressed but not so low that you'd complain. the lighting is exactly wrong enough to make everyone look slightly sick. whoever designed these spaces understood something about human psychology that they are using against you. now walk into a cathedral built in the 1200s and notice that your chest opens involuntarily. someone eight hundred years ago knew which proportions make the human spirit expand and they built it into stone. it is the most serious engineering that has ever existed and we replaced it with whatever the fuck is happening in every downtown on earth right now

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Just do more.

You will adapt. Your body will adapt. Your mind will adapt.

You can just simply do more and figure it out along the way. Most things in life simply bend to the virtue of volume. Everything is learnable, you are adaptable and the universe is endlessly malleable.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Read books. Travel when you can. Learn how to cook one meal exceptionally well. Sit in old bars and talk to strangers. Wear your best jacket to dinner. Appreciate good wine, good music, and good conversation. Do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Set the example for younger men who are watching you. Call your parents. Take long walks. Leave your phone behind sometimes. Become the kind of man people feel better after being around. Life is short, so live it well.”

-J.B. Lloyd