There is a certain kind of solace and bliss that comes from accepting our fate. The most difficult times may be when we don’t know. Once we’ve been dealt a
Month: October 2018
A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.11] – The philosophy of: François de La RochefoucauldA Deep Dive into: Love [pt.11] – The philosophy of: François de La Rochefoucauld
If you didn’t know what love is, and you observed someone who was going through the pangs of love you would best guess that it’s some kind of crippling disease.
To feel profound and authentic joy, it may be crucial to first learn how to feel deep and authentic sadnessTo feel profound and authentic joy, it may be crucial to first learn how to feel deep and authentic sadness
Pretty much everything we choose to do is for the purpose of making ourselves happy (and whether that comes as a result of making others happy). But in those times
You are neither a beast nor a god. And that person you’re thinking about… the same goes for them (The Philosophy of: Good Enough)You are neither a beast nor a god. And that person you’re thinking about… the same goes for them (The Philosophy of: Good Enough)
It’s possible that people you know spend a lot of time talking about you. But it’s also possible that they don’t talk about you at all. The truth is that
If someone points out a flaw in you, you can either get upset (which may mean you acknowledge it) or you can actively try change it. & what humour’s got to do with it.If someone points out a flaw in you, you can either get upset (which may mean you acknowledge it) or you can actively try change it. & what humour’s got to do with it.
There is no perfect person. We all do absurd things and have neuroses that make no, or very little, sense to others. From time to time, some of these may be
What if you lost pretty much everything? You would be okay.What if you lost pretty much everything? You would be okay.
Excellence withers without an adversary: the time for us to see how great it is, how much its force, is when it displays its power through endurance. I assure you,
The point of art is to show us that each of us isn’t normal. And that’s normal – The Philosophy of: Leo TolstoyThe point of art is to show us that each of us isn’t normal. And that’s normal – The Philosophy of: Leo Tolstoy
Our picture of what is normal isn’t true to how most of us actually are. The brilliance of Leo Tolstoy as a writer can be primarily put down to one thing.
Fuck consequences (?) + The Philosophy of: Bernard Black from Black BooksFuck consequences (?) + The Philosophy of: Bernard Black from Black Books
If all significant events in life are transformative, where you can never know or explain what it’s like to have a kid, feel what it’s like to be married, get divorced,
A Deep Dive into: Sex – The pleasure of keeping clothes onA Deep Dive into: Sex – The pleasure of keeping clothes on
There might not be a word more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language than Love. But actually, no, yes there might. And its definition,
The philosophy of: Charles Bukowski [pt.2]The philosophy of: Charles Bukowski [pt.2]
Bukowski may have been on to something when he said ‘Find what you love, and then let it kill you’. Either way, our significance is completely insignificant, so what’s going