Ion

“să mă lase să fac pluta în singurătatea mea cosmică”
― Lavinia Braniște, Escapada

“Încă nu-mi dau seama ce vrea de la mine, dar nici eu nu sunt cel mai orientat om din lume, așa că-i ordon minții mele să-i ordone corpului meu să nu mai simtă paranoia în mușchi. Nu ești în pădure și nu ești un animal hăituit. Ai fost mai demult, acum douăzeci de mii de ani. Dar nu mai ești.”
― Lavinia Braniște, Escapada

“Decision-making based on emotional intuition, without the aid of reason to keep it in line, pretty much always sucks. You know who bases their entire lives on their emotions? Three-year-old kids. And dogs. You know what else three-year-olds and dogs do? Shit on the carpet.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.
The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, or spectacularly talented, or intimidatingly attractive, or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine. This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life