2023/09/13

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. ‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

Paulo Coelho, Brida (via wordsnquotes)

If you’re an introvert, can you reblog this to help raise awareness that introverts do in fact exist?

Person: How do you have time to read so many books?

Me: *with bloodshot eyes* I don't

I have arrived in heaven and it’s snowing outside and I couldn’t be happier!!!! If you are ever in NYC make sure to stop by Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe because it’s magnificent and I never wanna leave

Fun fact: INTJs are the most introverted of all the MBTI types. They need vast swaths of alone time to refill their social battery and gain energy.

Study moods

Productive procrastination: having an essay due in a couple of days but reluctantly chooses to do homework instead.

Early bird: waking up at 6am and having a nice study session before school starts.

Late owl: stays up late to finish that one essay you procrastinated doing earlier.

In through one ear and out the other: reading the same paragraph five times and still wondering what it's about.

Slow but steady: when I make slow progress but I'm very proud of myself.

I don't want to: laying on your bed and continuously thinking that you will start studying in five minutes. Alternatively you stare at your book for a prolonged period of time.

The master of the free period: the times that you have a snack and a nice spot in the library and just study.

Clear your desk. Tie up your hair. Get your coffee. Sit down, and start. Just start.

The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain.

Terry Pratchett, “Soul Music”

[art by Joe McLaren]

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