January 2012
Life’s like a firework, You’re only lit once, And you must stand and radiate...
– / Naomi /
So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is...
– Twitter / @DalaiLama: So long as we are under th …
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
– Twitter / @TheBelovedRumi: “Don’t grieve. Anything yo …
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Sometimes the only way to act is not to think all the consequences through.
– Twitter / @alaindebotton: Sometimes the only way to …
‘Who are you to tell me how to live?’ remains one of the great...
– Twitter / @alaindebotton: ‘Who are you to tell me ho …
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he...
– ~Albert Camus Twitter / @PhilosophersSay: But what is happiness exce …
i will not be confused. will not be confused. they left me confused.
i will not...
– UNDERWORLD - DIRTY EPIC LYRICS
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...
– Paulo Coelho quotes
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the...
– Rainer Maria Rilke - Wikiquote
Those who have used Facebook longer agreed more that others were happier, and...
– Facebook: Friends’ Happy Pictures Make You Sad? - Yahoo! News
Resisting bitterness means refusing to be identified with your failures. The...
– Twitter / @alaindebotton: Resisting bitterness means …
You can be technically proficient, but horribly wrong.
– Twitter / @berkun: You can be technically pro …
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to...
– C.S. Lewis (via naomijade)
I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t get better. You get...
– J. Rivers (yup) (98) How would you describe your life in one sentence? - Quora
Exercise may not only increase body temperature and blood circulation to the...
– Exercise Therapy | Beautifully Hardcore
the only access that’s harder than ever is access to the part of your...
– Seth’s Blog: Access to access
Scientists bred fruit flies for intelligence. They made bananas taste bitter,...
– Falkenblog: Fascinating Evo Biology lecture
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a...
– MLK Seth’s Blog: Straight up
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
– Socrates Twitter / @AncientProverbs: Let him that would move th …
Who wants to hear the truth when they can hear that they’re right? Who wants to...
– Is It Time For You To Go On An ‘Information Diet’? : NPR
Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of...
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work,...
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me … they live in their heads....
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on
– Twitter / @GuyTipsDaily: Truth is the only safe gro …
eerie.
There is regret. Always, there is regret.
But it is better that our lives...
– Philip Larkin, from “Love, We Must Part Now” (via proustitute)
You could be brilliant, but there are no brilliant cowards.
– Twitter / @berkun: You could be brilliant, bu …
I’m cognizant I make my life unnecessarily complicated, but I don’t...
– Twitter / @asphalteden: I’m cognizant I make my li …
The faint shuffling sound of the foot pedal being lifted and released on a piano...
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DRAMA OFTEN OBSCURES THE REAL ISSUES
– Twitter / @jennyholzer: DRAMA OFTEN OBSCURES THE R …
The worst parts of people arrive when they don’t feel respected.
– Twitter / @rands: The worst parts of people …