“I should not love my suffering because it is useful. I should love it because it is… We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.”
— Simone Weil (1909-1943), from “Affliction”
in “Gravity and Grace”, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr
“A lover doesn’t discourage your growth. A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow.’”
“But in order to endure this type of extreme pessimism (it can be perceived here and there in my Birth of Tragedy) and- to live alone “without God and morality” I had to invent a counterpart for myself. Perhaps I know best why man alone laughs: he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. The unhappiest and most melancholy animal is, as fitting, the most cheerful.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
I joined a paleontology meme page on Facebook and it was the best decision I’ve made
repeat after me: I am a fucking awesome person who has dealt with so much shit and I have made it through it all and am still cute af and smart and funny and nice and intelligent and I kick ass