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Alba
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“People are always waiting for something to happen before they change their lives. But they have it backward; when you change your life, big things are more likely to happen”
― Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
― Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus
“Nuestra incapacidad para preservar un espacio en el cual inventarnos a nosotros mismos ajenos a la evaluación constante, eso es lo que me hace infeliz. ¿Cómo podemos tener autoestima cuando ha dejado de ser el tipo de estima que más importa?”
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“Here’s a non-geeky framing of the same idea: What if listening to an inner voice or heeding a passion for ethics or beauty were to lead to more important work in the long term, even if it measured as less successful in the moment? What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing?”
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“when two become one—connection can no longer happen. There is no one to connect with. Thus separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.”
― Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
― Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
“He turned on his side to face me and I felt that he saw deep inside me. He said, “I bless the largeness in you, Ana.” “And I bless yours,” I told him. Then he rose and, opening the door, stared toward the valley with the same deep, pure gaze he’d cast on me. I went to stand beside him and looked in the same direction as he, and it seemed for an instant I saw the world as he did, orphaned and broken and staggeringly beautiful, a thing to be held and put back right. Parting was fully upon us now.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
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