“Find a coffeehouse that has live music and go there for a night. Even if you have two drinks each coffee is inexpensive and you’ll have paid less than $10 each for a whole night’s activity.”Tagged: valentine's day, Coffee, Music
“Make a fire outside. This is free and hands down, the best date ever.”Tagged: valentine's day, Fire, camping
“I love being transparent because when I am transparent no one can take anything away from me. I am in full possession of all my strengths and all my weaknesses. No one can point out what I haven’t already.”Tagged: Transparency, Honesty, Radical Honesty, Flaws, Being Honest
“What did I like doing when I was younger that I’ve lost touch with?”Tagged: Questions, Childhood, young
“When I woke up this morning I pinched myself to make sure you weren’t a dream.”Tagged: Good Morning Texts, Dreams, Awake
“You can’t go into the world with a stencil of what you want and then think less of people because they’re just doing their own thing.”Tagged: Quote of the Moment, accepting people as they are, Loving People, Love, Expectations
“You are an adventurous introvert. You actually dislike being called an ‘introvert’ because you don’t relate at all to the weak stereotype of being a wet blanket. You are strong and you can handle yourself. You love people and being out and doing stuff, you’re just extra independent and need your…”Tagged: Aries, Adventure, strength
“You’re hard on yourself because you spend so much time trying to be the best at whatever is important to you. Even if you started doing something because you really loved the activity, at the end of the day you’re measuring yourself against everyone else.”Tagged: Aries, comparison, Competition
“An Aries would THRIVE in the zombie apocalypse. They’re the person everyone will seek out for protection and guidance. Aries are naturally adventurous and wouldn’t let fear get the best of them, they’d use their instincts and find a safe place to hang out with their friends while everyone else is…”Tagged: Aries, Apocalypse, zombies
“A weird thing about working on your mental health is that it’s very stressful to do the work required in order to work on your mental health!!!”Tagged: Mental Health, Being Yourself
“If we want people to agree with us, or at least see our perspective, we have to do the work of convincing them. We can’t shame people into being more loving. We can’t hate people into agreeing with us. We can listen, we can provide them the catharsis of being heard. We can expose ourselves to the…”Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“I want people to express themselves and we want people to get better — to be nicer and more understanding of each other. I think saying that is going to be a big laugh for a lot of people, like, ‘how can you say you want people to be nice when you let assholes have a voice?’ And the answer is pretty…”Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“The real issue is that people don’t want opinions they disagree with to be published. They don’t want writing that they don’t judge to be good to be published. They want their meal to come to them prepackaged and maybe even spooned directly into their mouth.”Tagged: food 4 thought, All Thinking is Relevant
“But there are people who think everything on the internet is intended to be journalism. They go into reading anything as if the intent of that writing is altruistic, created primarily to inform the reader. They do this when the more obvious intent is to entertain them which is the intent of every…”Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, food 4 thought
“One of the scariest comments I read all the time across different platforms (but especially on Thought Catalog) is ‘you call this journalism?’ No. No one has called any of this journalism.”Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, food 4 thought
“Please, please do not read something like you are shopping at the ‘As Is’ section at Ikea and accept whatever is in front of you. Reading is an assembly project! You aren’t stuck with whatever is on the page in front of you. Run it through your brain and see how it feels. React to it. Compare it to…”Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, food 4 thought