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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”
― Steven Furtick

tags: insecurity, life-philosophy

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“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.”
― Michael Brooks

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“I would like to see you. But: I would only like to see you with your feeling space, and desire, the parents of bravery, and curiosity. I would like you to want to see me without you feeling seduced or pressured. I would like to see you without our playing games: for games are for winners and losers and I do not ever want to win against you, or for you to lose against me, and I do not want to lose against you or for you to win against me. For we are part of the whole, the main, as Donne said—and your gain is mine and my loss is yours. Love is about finding one’s match, which means we shall touch our minds and hearts together at once, and never condescend or aim for any goal between us but the truth.”
― Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You

tags: desire, feeling, love, romance, space, truth

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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that men oppress women, the husband is indignant; he feels that he is the one who is oppressed - and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, that has established woman's situation in a form that is at present a source of torment for both sexes.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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