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The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

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“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

tags: art, immaturity, love, maturity, need

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“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

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“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

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“Courage isn't an absence of fear', cried out Sara. 'It's the light we find when fear is all there is. You're needed now, so find your courage”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

tags: inspirational

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“The outside reality, persons and things, have meaning only in terms of their satisfying or frustrating the inner state of the body. Real is only what is within; what is outside is real only in terms of my needs—never in terms of its own qualities or needs.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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