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Philosophical insights and inspiring words
"Unexpressed emotions are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways"
Psychology
"Hating yourself is just your pride in disguise, thinking your verdict outweighs god's."
Philosophy
"There's a famous Viktor Frankl quote that when a man can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."
Philosophy
"I could always hear my better self clearing his throat in the room next door."
Philosophy
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills"
Philosophy
"Happily ever after doesn't exist. It's a self-defeating prophecy that will leave you hopeless and burnt out by the end. We disregard hardship, waiting for some perfect bliss, as if happiness were a sunrise that never fades. But the sun always rises again tomorrow. To tell you the truth, happiness is something I've been chasing - and in this chase, I've sugar coated my struggles. Pushed them down so deep that not even the most experienced diver could pull them out. But I'm learning that the true sense of bliss is found day to day - in this moment. Its in achievement and beautiful days, but its also in struggle and pain. Its in licking a delicious mint choc chip ice cream on the beach; but it's also in weeping in a ball on the floor uncontrollably. There's no true end in sight. My advice to you my child, is to embrace. Not to merely accept, or to beseech, but to lean in to the good, the bad, and the ugly. Hold joy and pain in the same hand."
Philosophy
"A tree falls the way it leans."
Philosophy
"The world is a mirror. You raise your hand, it raises it back."
Philosophy
"Our brains have a biological code etched into them. Every process, habit, belief, etc is a function that our brain calls upon after necessary stimuli. Our conscious minds don't have access to this code - so all psychology and neuroscience is basically us staring at the frontend of a piece of software, trying to figure out the backend from purely what we see. Its possible to get a grasp on what's happening, but it can never truly be understood to its fullest extent."
Philosophy
"Taking no risks will be your biggest risk. You have to risk failure to succeed. You have to risk heartbreak to love. You have to risk criticism for the applause. You have to risk the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary. If you live avoiding risk, you're risking missing out on life."
Motivation
"Early mornings like this remind me of you. But as the sun rises and the cold air on my breath clears, I breathe a little more difficultly, knowing I'll face the day on my own."
Literature
"Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you."
Philosophy
"The struggle of man against power, is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
Philosophy
"theory exists on a whole different plain, that branches from existence. Existence creates the theory, theory doesn't create existence"
Philosophy
"i scribble outside the lines but i still end up making a masterpiece every time."
Philosophy
"It's when you're happy, and in love with things, that you get the privilege of grief. We can only grieve when we have something to lose. And what a beautiful thing it is, to find something to lose."
Philosophy
"I do not ask for your love in return. To love you is enough, to have known you, to have felt alive in your presence, that is my greatest joy. And I will carry it with me always. You can not imagine how much happiness you brought into my life. You came like a light in my darkness, a warmth in my cold solitude. And for that, I will always be grateful. Even if it was but for a single moment. I have known what it is to love, and be loved. And that moment will be mine forever. Untouchable by time or sorrow."
Literature
"Art comforts the disturbed, and disturbs the comfortable."
Philosophy
"Do i create to exist, or exist to create? Life long, ever hanging fruit. Am I here to collect them or to find them? Up, or down? A squiggle on a page, or meteor crashing down from space? The slash of the wrist will never conquer the chaotic runt of stellar material, so why in the world do I try? Do I create to be remembered, or is my existence creation within itself. I don't think the almighty programmer would even know. The human mind is so encapsulated with 2D, that we forgot the 3D, the 4D, and so on. So kill me now and spit dirt at my name, for I will never be remembered, and I should be shamed for thinking the likewise. I hope that chaos is creation, and by extension, fragmentation is freedom."
Philosophy
"Everyone just wants to cut to the final credits. That's what I hate about most people. Life is the journey. The passion, the hatred, the suffering. That's living. Always looking to the future is the curse of consciousness."
Philosophy
"Nobody wakes me. The emptiness stays loud inside my head. Even if the sky comes down falling, will the heavens shine and open up to me. You said this was freedom, now put the lead up against my head. Even when the sun comes down burning, the silence keeps me captive in your bed. Would you let me stay again; let me play with my happiness. If I break beneath your hands, would you offer me emptiness. Would let me stay again; even if it's meaningless. In your arms it's all pretend, but I'll trade pain for loneliness."
Literature
"THERE IS NEVER GOOD NOR BAD. ONLY YOUR MINDS PERSPECTIVE OF EVENTS."
Philosophy
"No love, however brief, is wasted."
Philosophy
"You sleep so well that she shows up in your dreams again. But then morning came. And the sun didn't warm you. It just reminded you that it wasn't real. You stared at the ceiling for a long time. Heart pounding over something that never happened. You thought you had healed. You told yourself that you were over it. You deleted the photos, boxed up the memories, deleted the number you never had the courage to call again. You had done everything right. You were doing better. But your brain doesn't care about timelines. It doesn't care about closure. It just remembers how it felt when she was yours. And it brings it all back, on a Tuesday morning, in a passing face, in a dream that tastes too much like truth. You dont cry. Not like you used to. But there's still a heaviness. A quiet ache. The kind that doesn't scream, just lingers. The kind that makes you wonder if she ever dreams of you too. You replay everything. The good. The bad. The "almosts". The "what-ifs". You wonder if it was timing, or whether it was just you. Maybe you were just young and didn't know how to hold something so rare. Or maybe she was never meant to stay. And maybe that's the hardest part: she's gone. You're healing. Life is moving forward. But somewhere deep down, you're still holding space for someone who doesn't know they can still live there. Some people don't leave with a goodbye. They leave by becoming someone you only get to see when your eyes are closed."
Literature
"And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night and you can do whatever you want; What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"
Philosophy
"Societal life has descended to being the allocation of dopamine resources."
Social Commentary
"No, we're not soul mates. This is not divine intervention. And this is most certainly not chance. I willed this. I knit the threads of fate myself until they spelled your name."
Literature
"Sin feels like freedom until you try to stop."
Philosophy
"I was burninng, and you arrived only to blame me for the smell of ashes"
Literature
"No matter how much your heart breaks, it still beats."
Philosophy
"Life is nothing but a fleeting moment after the next. It feels like trying to hold onto water. The best experiences - the ones that make your heart race and lungs burn with fresh air, the ones that make you feel truly alive - are the ones that can never last. A moment is never a mistake - it is complete. Impermanence is beauty."
Philosophy
"What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger."
Literature
"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
Philosophy
"What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more'... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
Philosophy
"If god is all powerful then he cannot be all good and if he is all good then he cannot be all powerful."
Philosophy
"those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it"
Philosophy
"I finally found my rhythm when I realised that even the steps backward were part of the dance."
Philosophy
"Death; embrace her with open arms, and she will falter, for she cannot face the strength of the man you have become."
Philosophy
"Music should tell a story, one that isn't always dictated by its creator. Todays music is purely dopimanergic, but true music should tell a story - either from the perspective of the composer, or revealing it from the inner workings of the listeners mind. Fuck formulas, embrace ruggedness."
Philosophy
"You know, when you listen to profound piece of music - one that spans the whole emotional experience, it's not happy. Happiness is elevator music. It's better than happiness, but it's almost unbearable."
Philosophy
"Your job, your children, your wife, your money, your artistic creations, your pleasures - they are all superficial and empty, if they are not floating in the deep sea of your conscious being."
Philosophy
"You can not be dead, that's an oxymoron. You can only ever be alive. Your own death is quite literally not your problem. Live with the urgency that mortality demands."
Philosophy
"The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal. Because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed."
Literature
"It means something to build something"
Philosophy
"People only move into action when they're forced to. Once you realise this you can bend life to your will."
Philosophy
"There's times in life when you can't feel the music. Strive to feel it again. Contrast is nature."
Philosophy
"The universe is not big enough to contain the future"
Philosophy
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall"
Philosophy
"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be"
Philosophy
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."
Philosophy
"One thing only I know; and that is I know nothing."
Philosophy
"I used to advertise my loyalty, and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."
Philosophy
"All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered."
Motivation
"I pine for the former times when there were such little thoughts in my head, for I could take a breath and see what was right in front of me."
Philosophy
"May we forever remember that in each and every moment, we are composing the story of our lives. Let's aim to make it a meaningful read, or at least an interesting one."
Literature
"nobody has a grip on reality, because reality is so hard to grip."
Philosophy
"Truth comes from authority. Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat. Those who do not conform will be punished"
Social Commentary
"Change can be seen or felt in one day, but its the thousands of days preceding it that take you there."
Philosophy
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Philosophy
"To see science under the lens of the artist, but art under the lens of life"
Philosophy
"You are not thinking, you are merely being logical"
Philosophy
"What surprises me most about human kind is that we get bored of our childhood, rush to grow up and long to be children again. That we lose our health to make money, and then use our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present, such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we were never going to die and die as if we've never lived."
Philosophy
"Someone will say "Society must find a way to give people the opportunity to go through the power process." For such people the value of the opportunity is destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to them. What they need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain autonomy they must get off that leash"
Social Commentary
"I understand now that I'm not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, that when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say for the same reason I laugh so often - because I pay attention."
Philosophy
"The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values."
Social Commentary
"The magic you're looking for is in the work you are avoiding"
Motivation
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
Social Commentary
"I learned that courage was not the abscence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
Motivation
"Stability & security are the creator of complacency & complacency is the root of the modern man's despair."
Social Commentary
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"
Philosophy
"Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it."
Philosophy
"No one does evil knowingly."
Philosophy
"There is no better time to stop and walk away than after a victory."
Business
"No man steps in the same river twice - for he is not the same man and it is not the same river. The only thing that is permanent is impermanence."
Philosophy
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
Philosophy
"It is what we cannot see that defines what we can. There's more than meets the eye..."
Philosophy
"Space we can recover, time never"
Philosophy
"O Lord, everything good in me is due to you. The rest is my fault."
Philosophy
"Battle not with monsters yest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"
Philosophy
"In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society."
Social Commentary
"The meaning of life is that it stops"
Philosophy
"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
Social Commentary
"care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner"
Philosophy
"A mind goes places when you give it fuel to get there."
Philosophy
"in our heads we're still 25, but we're a lot older."
Life
"you cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
Philosophy
"dead people receive more flowers than the living ones, because regret is stronger than gratitude."
Literature
"The meaning of life is to enjoy the passage of time - the journey."
Philosophy
"Intrinsic rewards always come back to extrinsic reasons."
Philosophy
"Just like any other form of tissue, neurons are cells. This means that surely psychological trauma can heal, just like physical trauma can."
Philosophy
"a blind man can't comprehend colour - we can't understand what we haven't yet experienced."
Philosophy
"complex problems require complex solutions. speaking from a quantum perspective, if the universe is infinite, therefore infinite possibilities are reality, then there is infinite solutions to any given problem. You can either go on the journey of a lifetime seeking one of those complex solutions, or live a solemn life of quiet desperation."
Philosophy
"The future doesn't make sense without the past."
Philosophy
"sometimes the best thing you can do for other people is to fix yourself."
Philosophy
"The chance I'm here is in excess of a trillion to one, accounting for every single random act of the universe and every single decision all my ancestors ever made. I'm here against all odds, but I'm here. So I'm going to chase the things that let me learn, make me happy and absorb as much about this world as I can. After all, I am just an observer of the passage of time."
Philosophy
"What very few people in this life figure out is that pushing yourself to the edge of death is the best therapy."
Philosophy
"It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."
Literature
"You only have problems when you have no choice in the matter (cancer, car crashes, death of loved one, etc). Until then, you only have inconveniences."
Philosophy
"calling things cliche is cliche as fuck"
Philosophy
"happiness comes from hard work. Not from what comes of it, but from the journey it takes you on."
Philosophy