Neda Čekavičiūtė

“Each of us was born to bring forth something that has never existed: a way of being, a family, an idea, art, a community— something brand-new. We are here to fully introduce ourselves, to impose ourselves and ideas and thoughts and dreams onto the world, leaving it changed forever by who we are and what we bring forth from our depths. So we cannot contort ourselves to fit into the visible order. We must unleash ourselves and watch the world reorder itself in front of our eyes.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living

“My goal is to offer a more humane and sustainable way to integrate professional efforts into a life well-lived. To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“Putting on a persona of someone else’s expression, or trying to emulate the current gold standard of social media femininity, is just adopting a fake layer in order to be someone we are not. In many ways, it is the revival of the fifties-housewife scenario with a neo-Tantric twist.”
― Michaela Boehm, The Wild Woman's Way: Unlock Your Full Potential for Pleasure, Power, and Fulfillment

“How we spend out non-working hours determines very largely how capably or incapably we spend our working hours.”
― Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less