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A quote on self-love by psychoanalyst <n>Carl Jung</n> from <n>The Tavistock Lectures</n>.

Rapper <n>Kendrick Lamar</n> during an acceptance speech.

A portrait of <n>Theodore Roosevelt</n> with an excerpt from his 1910 speech, '<n>The Man in the Arena</n>'.

"Showing the first draft alongside the finished product (as many design firms will already do) or surfacing what got cut or almost didn’t make it; when AI can generate infinite polished consensus, the visible trail of human disagreement becomes the value signal."



Mouthwash Studio, Barr Balamuth, and Alex Tan

Actor <n>Austin Butler</n> during an interview with <n>Kareem Rahma</n> for the show <n>Subway Takes</n>.

The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die.



\- DFW

<n>Brian Cox</n> as the character <n>Logan Roy</n> in the <n>HBO</n> television series <n>Succession</n>.

The poem <n>My Symphony</n> by <n>William Henry Channing</n>.

I’m very fond of two letters, dash, and then a number. Just because... you kind of like when nothing turns into something, you know? Something meaningful. The less the name reveals about something, the more you can fill it with.

The paradox of blessing is that every gift from God comes with the weight of a crown you never asked to wear. to be chosen is to be marked, to be blessed is to be burdened with the terrible knowledge that you now owe the world something it cannot name, and the moment you receive what you prayed for you realize you have become responsible for everyone who still kneels in the dark begging for the same light

<n>Jenny Holzer</n>'s <n>Marquees</n> installation at the <n>Selwyn Theatre</n> in New York, 1994. Photo by <n>Don Shewey</n>.

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

A 1756 diary entry from <n>John Adams</n>, as featured in the biography by author <n>David McCullough</n>.

“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

Clive Staples Lewis

the people who draw you in, i mean really draw you in aren’t doing it through color palettes or clever tweets. they’re animated. by something real. something felt. something that leaks out in everything they say, wear, post, love, fear, make.

& you know it when you see it.

your nervous system knows it.

it hums.

<n>Intimacy These Days</n>, a piece by writer <n>Jess Janz</n>.