In General, People Are Not Drawn To Perfection In Others. People Are Drawn To Shared Interests, Shared

Carmen Martín Gaite / Lo raro es vivir

“No me gusta vivir de vanas esperanzas, ni de ingenuas ilusiones. Abrazar demasiado lo que aun no llega, es prepararse el terreno para recibir el golpe duro de la vida que tarde o temprano llega. Prefiero abrazar la realidad tal cual es, aunque me parta el alma, aunque me reviente las entrañas, porque al fin y a cabo la verdad libera… y liberarse duele.”

— Firthunands

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

by Nina Slashchilina

So be angry, and keep going. Let your mind go into combat mode, fight with make believe people and through situations that aren't really happening. But keep going. Be sad, be exhausted, lose hope. But keep going. Still show up. Do the work. Because the anger and fighting and fear and sadness and tiredness and hopelessness? It will pass. It will fade naturally when you keep going. If you let it stop you, it wins.

Brianna Wiest

“To you, I’m gonna give all my secrets away. Would you then, if you knew everything about me, still you still want to stay?”

— simplesophistications

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki