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lqb2quotes · 2 days
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Freedom is in the unknown. If you believe there is an unknown everywhere, in your own body, in your relationships with other people, in political institutions, in the universe, then you have maximum freedom.
—philosopher John C. Lilly
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lqb2quotes · 9 days
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"I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."
— Toni Morrison
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lqb2quotes · 15 days
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I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don't think it's a privilege or an indulgence, it's not even a quest. I think it's almost like knowledge, which is to say, it's what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling us what it is, I think it would exist in any case. The startle and the wonder of being in this place. This overwhelming beauty—some of it is natural, some of it is man-made, some of it is casual, some of it is a mere glance—is an absolute necessity. I don't think we can do without it any more than we can do without dreams or oxygen.
Toni Morrison
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lqb2quotes · 15 days
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Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
Frank Herbert
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lqb2quotes · 15 days
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In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering. In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day. Adaptability is the way of consistency.
James Clear
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lqb2quotes · 15 days
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If you want to avoid criticism, create less. If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more.
James Clear
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lqb2quotes · 17 days
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The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
Jessica Hische
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lqb2quotes · 17 days
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A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
Naval Ravikant
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lqb2quotes · 17 days
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Do things for your own satisfaction. Consider praise from others to be a bonus. If you don't work for their validation in the first place, you won't need it to feel satisfied once it's done.
James Clear
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lqb2quotes · 17 days
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The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.
James Clear
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lqb2quotes · 20 days
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Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left it untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.
— thich nhat hanh, taming the tiger within
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lqb2quotes · 26 days
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“this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will fight if we are forced to but the fundamental goal of r/evolution must be peace. we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. the power of the people is stronger than any weapon. a people’s r/evolution can’t be stopped. we need to be weapons of mass construction. weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system. we need to change ourselves. we have got to make this world user friendly. user friendly. are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. to sacrifice to end colonialism. to end neo-colonialism. to end racism. to end sexism. r/evolution means the end of exploitation. r/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. r/evolution is creative. r/evolution means treating your mate as a friend and an equal. r/evolution is sexy. r/evolution means respecting and learning from your children. r/evolution is beautiful. r/evolution means protecting the people. the plants. the animals. the air. the water. r/evolution means saving this planet. r/evolution is love.”
― Assata Shakur
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lqb2quotes · 1 month
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"Whatever is of interest about my food, about my traditional ways of growing food, the things that I have to do with food, the rituals, the prayers, the whatever it is that is so fascinating in the mind, I want to know about that from your culture.” A sincere effort to investigate one’s own culture makes a dive into another’s more authentic and palatable, he said. “It’s frightening to walk into a room with white people who want to talk about Indigenous culture, and want to talk about your culture, and they have nothing to bring to the table,” said Bolden-Newsome, who is married to a white person (Truelove Seeds co-founder Taylor). “Because if you come to a potluck and you don’t have anything, you’re going to eat up all my stuff. That’s fine, I guess, at a potluck. But we’re talking about a spiritual potluck, you know?” “My ancestors made a choice to be less Italian and to be less Irish, to be less Catholic, to be less ethnic ... to send their kids to be around WASPy people,” Taylor said. “That was the process of becoming white. What does it mean to investigate who you were before that, in the context of a broader racial justice movement? That, I think, gets to the heart of ... a big reason why we do this. This is a challenge to the dominant narrative. 
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lqb2quotes · 1 month
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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.
Chuck Close
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lqb2quotes · 1 month
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Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.
Glennon Doyle
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lqb2quotes · 1 month
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It is not worth it to be greedy over a single transaction. Even if you're not going to work with the person again. Even if you think word won't get out. Even if you think this is your one shot to make it. Reputation follows you everywhere.
James Clear
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lqb2quotes · 1 month
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What you will get wrong is that you will not pay enough attention to your users. You will make up some idea in your own head that you will call your "vision", and you will spend a lot of time thinking about your vision. In a cafe. By yourself. And build some elaborate thing without going and talking to users, because that's doing sales, which is a pain in the ass, and they might say no. You will not ship fast enough because you're embarrassed to ship something unfinished, and you don't want to face the likely feedback that you will get from shipping. You will shrink from contact with the real world, contact with your users. That's the mistake you will make.
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