i don’t like the fact that my changes of survival seem to be linked to the common sense of others.

Word of the Day is ‘copemate’ (16th century): the friend in life who gets you through.

Jack LaLanne: “Exercise is a CELEBRATION of what you can do, not a punishment for what you ate.”

Hurkle durkle: A 200 year-old Scottish term meaning to lounge in bed long after it’s time to get up.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feeling.

In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.

Bayard Rustin: Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

I’m starting to realise that one of the purest forms of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. In any situation how much they care about you is found in how much they consider you.

“When you’re not used to being confident, confidence feels like arrogance. When you’re used to being passive, assertiveness feels like aggression. When you’re not used to getting your needs met, prioritizing yourself feels selfish. Your comfort zone is not a good benchmark.”

Chidi,, The Good Place: So, why do it then? Why choose to be good, every day, if there is no guaranteed reward we can count on, now or in the afterlife? I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, We are not in this alone.

vanillatifa: My uncle said, “You’ll always be a boy to me." The table went silent. My little cousin, 9 years old, slammed her fork down and said, “No. She’s my aunt. And she’s pretty.” That one sentence did more for my soul than years of therapy.

“I think we’re living in a dystopic riff on the main timeline, like a nightmare that someone in the main plot is having. That’s where we exist, because I was just watching the news and they had a talking hat on. He was talking about the situation in the Middle East and he was like, I wish we had a Bush presidency right now. And my first thought was, oh man, that would be great. Anyway, happy Friday the 13th everyone.”