January 2012
59 posts
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me...”
– Pablo Neruda. “Tonight I can write…” (via quote-book)
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: Taking Responsibility: Reactive vs. Proactive... →
itslikeagiantunicorn:
Because our attitudes and behaviors flow out of our paradigms, if we use our self-awareness to examine them, we can often see in them the nature of our underlying maps. Our language, for example, is a very real indicator of the degree to which we see ourselves as proactive people.
Reactive…
“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed...”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Madman (via la-inspiration)
DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics:... →
dagseoul:
Anonymous asked you: I’ve never watched The Help before. What is the problem with the film?
Never mind that the author is a douche bag. The Help is a movie that implements racist stereotypes of black people to tell the story of a young, white woman. It also ignores the realities of its era…
“these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don’t fit...”
– Lucille Clifton, “homage to my hips” (via fatgirlsguide)
LIMCHOY LEE: tobia: “Over a century ago Thomas... →
tobia:
“Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture….
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most...
understandtheuniverse:
“Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
“I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel...”
– Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old - Ryan O’Connell (via dearcassandra)
Italy beckons me
2012’s big move
likealilikoi:
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
“Those who remember the past are paralyzed by it.”
– (via mandeeznuts)
I think about you far more than I care to admit.
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
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“Tempest neminem manet”
ladyjour:
Out of all the heartbreak I’ve felt in my entire life, I find that my mind is the cause of about 98% of it.
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“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via apex-nadir)
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” (via adeana)
