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existentialife

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Currently entangled in a love affair with philosophy and psychology. Former life scholar, now working on a thesis in overthinking and existentialism. Seeking profound conversations, caffeine, and the occasional vacation from the void.

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existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Feb 23

This is my wish for you
#RalphWaldoEmerson
#RWE
#DryValley
#ThornHill

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existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · 2d

October’s Promise
#originalpoetry
#autumn

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · 20d

Under the brush of the autumn wind, the leaves dance, painted in hues of orange and gold, a visual symphony that sings in every corner of the forest.
🍁⛰️🍂
~ David Passarelli, Mountain Poems

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · 25d

Goodbye Summer
Hello Autumn

Autumn… the year's last, loveliest smile.
~ William Cullen Bryant

#AutumnalEquinox

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Sep 18

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~ William Shakespeare (paraphrased)

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Sep 14

Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits,
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words, and
Kind deeds.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Don't Just

Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
~ Roy T. Bennett

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Sep 5

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air & the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~J.Burroughs

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 25

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 24

The Full Measure of a Man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him. The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
~ Albert Schweitzer

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
~ Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 21

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.
~ William Lyon Phelps

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 19

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 10

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~ May Sarton

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 8

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
~ William Blake

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Aug 1

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
~ Anonymous

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 31

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring….Love is always bestowed as a gift—freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 29

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
~ Alan Cohen

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 29

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
~ Henry David Thoreau

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 26

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~ Henry David Thoreau

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 21

His advice:
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
~ Stephen Hawking

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 18

Let us be the change - Mahatma Gandhi

#gandhi
#MahatmaGandhi
#bethechange
#originalquote
#CoreySmith
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existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 15

Joyeux quatorze juillet!
Joyeux fete nationale!
Vive le Republique Francaise!
🇫🇷

existentialife @cherholt.bsky.social · Jul 7

Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance