LatiNegra Sexologist, on love
You may realize you love your partners as much as you love yourself. That is a love that is scary at times, but it is the love that will ground you, hold you accountable, help you grow, build, and...
View ArticleRumi, on sorrow
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green...
View ArticleDanielle Henderson, on bell hooks
hooks is the person who revealed the secret of academia to me, which is that when you use your own language, when love and passion are part of your work, you are able to reach more people. And isn’t...
View ArticleAnais Nin, on friendship
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. –Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via My...
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ofthemoons: one of the most significant things i have done is unlearn the idea that a boyfriend / partner should do things ie: reply to me quickly, reach out to me when i declare that i want space,...
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there’s a thing that happens, when you grow to know a person, when that person is smart, creative, and kind, when they can surprise you, see the same things you can see, and behave with either such...
View ArticleLatiNegra Sexologist, on rejection
So much to learn in the rejection. The first thing is to remember rejection is not always a sign that you are a failure or have failed. Rejection is about coming closer to what you need to build and...
View ArticleJanet Mock, on self-definition
Self-definition has been a responsibility I’ve wholeheartedly taken on as mine. It’s never a duty one should outsource. Of this responsibility, writer and poet Audre Lorde said, ‘If I didn’t define...
View ArticleBaruch Spinoza, on knowing what you’re doing
Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure. – Baruch Spinoza (via KEW)
View ArticleEckhart Tolle, on looking for peace
Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The...
View ArticleOctavia Butler, on personal development and self-acceptance
You aren’t flawed […] I don’t know whether you’ll be what your parents wanted you to be, but whatever you become, you’ll be complete. You’ll have within yourself everything you need to content...
View ArticleSylvia Plath, on personal change
I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now? –Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via Learning Everyday…)
View ArticleAbraham Maslow, on choosing between safety and growth
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. –Abraham Maslow (via Things I’ve Learned from being Open)
View ArticleOn Managing Our Differences
I said something to JJ yesterday and he saw truth in it and I want to preserve it here to come back to in future times of “aljadlfjadl;jfa;sdf this shit is haaaaard.” I think that this is what...
View ArticleDean Spade, on love as other-development
What I hope that love is—whether platonic, romantic, familial, or communal—is the sincere wish that another person have what they need to be whole and develop themselves to their best capacity for joy...
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warmsuggestion: The person you love is not the same as they were when you first started loving them and they are not the same as they will be when you die. Love must be adaptive. Love must be smart...
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