May 2013
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“A good life is still a life. It must involve a full share of suffering,...”
– Truth. (via explore-blog)
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D: "The pirate had a hook for a hand, wooden stump for a leg, and an eyepad." A: "Eyepatch, Dad?"
D: "Hmm?"
A: "Eyepatch not iPad, right?"
D: "Yes.."
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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
– +Seneca via JCR
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“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is...”
– Milan Kundera (via tattoolit)
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“Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get...”
– +The Life of David Gale via W.A.
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“It’s the little indignities that slowly devastate your soul. The ones...”
– +Seema Jilani, My Racist Encounter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public....”
– +Oscar Wilde
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though...”
– +Theodore Roosevelt
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“A wild dedication of yourselves/
To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”
– +William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
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“I feel a power within me … a fire that I may not quench, but I must keep ablaze.”
– +Van Gogh
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“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
Beautiful.
April 2013
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This is Water - DFW
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical...
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“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the...”
– +William Morris via Swiss-Miss
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“The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this...”
– +Clare Booth via Brainpickings
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in...”
– +Susan Sontag
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No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.
Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.
And if a man lived in obscurity
making his friends in that obscurity
obscurity is not uninteresting.
To each his world is private,
and in that world one excellent minute.
And in that world one tragic minute.
These are private.
In any...
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Some time later there was a song in the jukeboxes on the Upper East Side that went “but where is the schoolgirl who used to be me,” and if it was late enough at night I used to wonder that. I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the...
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Qué lindo es soñar despierto.
How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you’re awake, Andrew. Anybody can dream while they’re asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say your dreams out loud, and believe in them.
+Gil, Open by Andre Agassi
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Andre, I won’t ever try to change you, because I’ve never tried to change anybody. If I could change somebody, I’d change myself. But I know I can give you a structure and a blueprint to achieve what you want. There’s a difference between a plow horse and a racehorse. You don’t treat them the same. You hear all this talk about treating people equally, and I’m...
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The life of 1/7,000,000,000 of the world: The... →
jonathonreed:
The voice of a young boy selling poems in a parking lot. Part of Projet En Vue of Oakland, CA.
Sati: What’s some of the best advice you’re given? Myles: I have no idea. Half the time I don’t listen. Weren’t you guys over in Santa Cruz a couple weeks ago?
I loved listening to this. It…
Free swimming pools of chocolate and honey!
nodus tollens
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters that you had originally skimmed through to get to...
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Episode 1: Adil Dhalla
findingyourselflost:
From ma new audio show.
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Happy Birthday Jack.
I missed you but you’d be so proud.
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“Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be...”
– +Wade Davis from the Colorado College Commencement Address
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elleluna:
I’d like to end tonight with a poem, she said.
It’s called El Rio Abajo El Rio, or the river beneath the river. It means that no matter what happens in your creative life, there is this pure, artisan river that flows within us. Even if people dam the river, it flows. Even if people pollute the river, it flows. No matter what pervades us, no matter who has tried to destroy us, no...
