February 2012
35 posts
Wise words:
“If you are looking for change, it starts with you.
Life gets so much easier when you stop concerning yourself with what other people think about you, and instead start embracing the full expression of the wonderful human being that you are. You are more brilliant than any arbitrary grade on a report card could show, and more beautiful than any rating on a ten-point scale. You are better than...
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“You are not missing anything. Anticipate without expectation.”
– Javier
Quote Your Day Away
Favorite time suck of the day has been the TED Quotes page: http://www.ted.com/quotes
“Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”
—Marco Tempest
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“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa
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Mixtape Preservation Society
Dear friend Brian initiated the brilliant Mixtape Preservation Society, and was interviewed about it: http://www.kuci.org/show_feature.cgi?id=1099
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“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.”
– Louis L’Amour
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“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn
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“There is no heart you can have that another heart will not have a problem with.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Defect At The Heart Factory
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that...”
– The Alchemist
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Avocados Care
Sometimes you’re craving guacamole more than anything, so you cut open a weeks old avocado (that apparently you’d been saving for an unintentional science experiment) in hopes of a speck of edible yellow-green to at least get a taste of chip dip deliciousness. When you pull the two halves apart, somehow the entire avocado is fresh as could be, as though it knew it needed to save itself...
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January 2012
14 posts
“And a week later… the world falls apart again. And I think, how can one person...”
– Jennifer Lawler
“… the total passion for the total height…”
– Ayn Rand
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would...”
– Sylvia Plath
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
– Lana Turner
“She wanted something to happen—something, anything; she did not know what.”
– Kate Chopin
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
“Turning the light around is to illumine inwardly, is using emptiness and...”
– Dzogchen
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore…” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. —Ray...
“If the world doesn’t end on December 21st, 2012 I have a feeling a lot of babies will be born on September 20th, 2013.”
December 2011
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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For...”
– John Lennon