I have in me like a haze
Which holds and which is nothing
A nostalgia for nothing at all,
The desire for something vague. - Fernando Pessoa, opening lines to “[I have in me like a haze],” trans. Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems (Grove Press, 1998)
Which holds and which is nothing
A nostalgia for nothing at all,
The desire for something vague. - Fernando Pessoa, opening lines to “[I have in me like a haze],” trans. Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems (Grove Press, 1998)
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Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
You learn more about someone at the end of a relationship than at the beginning.
- Unknown
Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.
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But then when the storm is over and the night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you’re left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
- Harold Pinter, from The Complete Works; “Ashes to Ashes & Other Plays,”