As humans - I think we often put too many rules on others & on ourselves. We call it cultural norms. every culture has them. But just because you think it's right, doesn't mean it is. we often restrict people with our worldview. We are meant to live passionately not by a rule book.
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If you’re always looking at what you don’t have and can’t do, you’ll always be in a bad mood - if you’re thankful for what you DO have and what you CAN do, you’ll be happy and love life way more (even in the same circumstances).
Finding what you’re truly passionate about is such a magical feeling.
What you don't appreciate, will often depreciate.
If you decide to be a blessing to others & take the focus off yourself, I promise you will live a way more fulfilled life. It will take a lot more work, but - it's worth it!
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl i…
Every class has a student like that, one who'll study what he needs to without supervision, who you know will one day attend a top college and get an excellent job. A child who's innately capable.
But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.
As individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are linked by a prototypical memory.
My point is, in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
Fate seems to be taking me in some ever stranger directions.
But it's not a good idea to make decisions so soon. There's no such thing as absolutes.
Everything is there, but there are no parts. Since there are no parts, there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything, or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things, just let yourself soak it all in.
But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos was an old friend, a part of him already. Nakata understood this well.
This world is a terribly violent place. And nobody can escape the violence. Please keep that in mind. You can't be too cautious. The same holds true for cats and human beings.
There's a difference between loss and lack. I suppose it's like—well, imagine a train streaming down a track. The freight's disappeared from one of the cars. A car that's empty inside—that's loss. When the whole car itself has vanished, that's lack.
I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and image a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here—me included—will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust.
Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens.
Face it, I remind myself—there're tons of things you don't have a clue about.
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.