That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

Alex Shakar

Categorized in : Way Problem Holding On

Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

cities running beautiful

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to... by Alex Shakar

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

internet community want

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.

cat dog children

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of min... by Alex Shakar

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

childhood age mind

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

empty deep-thought stupidity

You need contradictions to make an ideal. by Alex Shakar

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

ideals contradiction needs

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And... by Alex Shakar

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

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