Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
Thomas Unterkircher
Ask yourself, next time you’re doing something enjoyable: are you really surrendering to the full enjoyment available here? The answer will often be no. Perhaps this has something to do with how displays of rapturous delight are often discouraged in adolescence.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their Sweetn
... See moreIt 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
Kiki turned to her husband with a thesis for a face, of which only Howard could know every line and reference.
Zadie Smith • On Beauty
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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
“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul
... See moremaybe this ache in my chest is actually the feeling of my heart growing stronger from its battles.
louise kaufmann
