You need to be lore-maxxing. Taking risks. Failing miserably. Relentlessly strategizing and experimenting. Nobody wants to die with a story that isn't worth telling.
Some women don't flirt with people. They flirt with life. Extra twenty minutes at the café. Fresh flowers for no reason. Music while getting dressed. Taking the scenic way because the sky looks good. There's romance happening between her and being alive.
WE AS A SOCIETY HAVE DEMONIZED THE LEARNING PROCESS AND THE CONCEPT OF "FAILING FORWARD" FOR TOO LONG. WE MUST TEACH OURSELVES TO ENJOY LEARNING AGAIN EVEN IF WE STRUGGLE, CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE
Push your brain's neuroplasticity to its absolute limit.
Try different restaurants. Explore new cafés, or just sit at a different table. Listen to unfamiliar music. Switch up your workouts. Learn new languages, take up fresh hobbies, and travel to foreign countries.
Consistency is vital, but if you want to unlock fresh thinking and creativity, you must embrace novel experiences, and you must seek them often.
Underrated life advice: get better at recovering fast. You're going to fail. You're going to get rejected. Make bad calls. Lose money. Embarrass yourself. Whatever it is, the goal is shrinking the gap between falling down and getting back up. Master the art of starting over.
And as Carl Jung said, no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
you think your desires are lofty and unreachable and God sends a glimmer of possibility your way to remind you that you are worthy of your dreams, and they are much nearer than you think.
You owe it to yourself to pursue the life you really want. You owe it to yourself to try. Even if it’s just a little each day. If something is niggling at you, if there’s something you want to birth that won’t leave you alone, you owe it to yourself to try. Just try.
the moon could never be disappointed in you. the moon carried you in her cradle before you were born, and will continue to hold you long after you pass.
there's a therapeutic technique called behavioral activation which can be a little confusing in therapy speak, but i found these memes that explain it in examples very well ^_^
Six months of disciplined delusion, believing in yourself, pursuing what you want even when it is unrealistic, unclenching and leaning all the way into your own nature, will do way more for your life than six years spent intelligently explaining your unhappiness.