Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
Thomas Unterkircher
We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents.
Michael Christie • Greenwood
Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more
Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
People don't want you to be perfect. What they want is to feel connected with you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and help other people feel as though you’re aware of them .
Seth Godin • Three types of kindness
"Some books leave
us free and some
books make us
free.!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it in the last couple years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is merely to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and
... See moreJohn Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.