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rando phrase I read on a wall in a building where 12 step meetings go down. Can’t stop thinking about this phrase
Jun 2, 2025
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“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
— Gore Vidal
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
— Joan Didion
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.”
—Maya Angelou
“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
— Mr. Rogers
“If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.”
— Phyllis Diller
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”
“You know, crack might be extreme, but spray cheese is not my kind of party.”
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Also when my therapist said resentment is a feeling of self-betrayal…
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.”
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
— Gore Vidal
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
— Joan Didion
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are.”
—Maya Angelou
“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
— Mr. Rogers
“If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.”
— Phyllis Diller
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”
“You know, crack might be extreme, but spray cheese is not my kind of party.”
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Also when my therapist said resentment is a feeling of self-betrayal…
Oct 10, 2024
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😃there’s this quote that i saw recently that compared being mad at someone to drinking poison and expecting the other person to die and it has Never Left My Mind Since.
i’m gonna need everyone to hop on the realization train with me here.
i’m gonna need everyone to hop on the realization train with me here.
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😃courtesy of my therapist. a lot of therapists I’ve had in the past haven’t been as action oriented as him and I think about this a lot.
Also some AA/NA cliches like ”nothing changes if nothing changes” are a recent favorite of mine recently
Also some AA/NA cliches like ”nothing changes if nothing changes” are a recent favorite of mine recently
Jul 17, 2024
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I hesitate to say her movies are ’about’ masculinity (they’re actually about sadism), but since AMERICAN PSYCHO is the jumping off point, he r ouevre feels appropo to cite. Random aside… One of my fav observations/quips I’ve read about a film was re: ZERO DARK THIRTY, we nt something like “Even though Jessica Chastain is the star, ZD30 fails the Bechdel test. There’s only one s cene of her and a woman are having a private conversation, and wouldn’t you know it, the conversation is about a man (Osama bin Laden).“
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Narrates an experience observing (for almost a decade, 100% via social media) an acquaintance who got deeply involved with a pyramid scheme. Fire prose. Unstoppable vision. Must read
