“Greeks did not grovel before their gods. They were aware of their vain need to be supplicated and venerated, but they believed men were their equal. Their myths understand that whoever created this baffling world, with its cruelties, wonders, caprices, beauties, madness and injustice, must themselves have been cruel, wonderful, capricious, beautiful, mad and unjust. The Greeks created gods that were in their image: warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate but vengeful.” Mythos - @stephenfryactually 📖 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeIzKHp4Wh/?igshid=153j5vf5li3z2
“There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I eat and read and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life—whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can’t rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I’m feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). I can choose my favorite words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.” @elizabeth_gilbert_writer 📖 (at Zürich, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJIhF_phbP/?igshid=1jyy13162vq4e
“Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves. This exposure to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it’s not necessarily the best way to live.” (at Colosseum - Coliseum - Rome) https://www.instagram.com/p/B86lz3OJizS/?igshid=1cer33dnkao8r
growing up reading fantasy books was such a bust cause your whole life you’re left wanting more from life and like there’s something missing and you’re just waiting for that missing part to begin but it’s never gonna come
Part of me if like “this is horrible and needs to be rectified.” Another part of me is like “that’s a ridiculous amount of money. Fuck those bougie shits.”
Based on the amount the first movie made, that’s less than one percent of its total box office.
Depending on how important you think the writer is to the end product, that may both be getting underpaid. Her, obviously more so.
