April 2011
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...”
– - Carl Gustav Jung - Atheist Spirituality: Arguing Against Religion
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
– Quote by Nelson Mandela: “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping…”
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are...”
– Dale Carnegie quotes
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
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It's frustrating that one can't reply on every Tumblr post.
I've got some responses to your last reblog of mine socialwrkr!
“A more valuable technology tool for humanity might be the opposite of Twitter -...”
– Understanding the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always...”
– Miriam Adeney (via myradventures)
The Science of Empathy →
sundownsocialwork:
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with the neighbour. Unlike the arms industry that...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein - Wikiquote
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syntheticpubes:
“We can only wonder if cloud computing may make us nostalgic one day for having a real ‘file’ on the hard drive of one’s own computer—or if silicon brain implants may make us wax poetic for the days when one’s computing happened on a laptop. In the march toward increasing abstraction, whatever we had previously will seem like the real thing.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Program or be...
I Don’t Always Know What I Am Doing – I Just Do It →
There is no such thing as failing. It is all learning. There are no mistakes. It is all learning.
“it seems like telling someone that you don’t know that well that you have some...”
– The Death of the Romantic Gesture | thoughtcatalog.com | Readability (via yogurtsoda)
PET SHOP BOYS This Must Be The Place I Waited... →
A sampling of the weird shit I get sent by other...
“I’m Sepehri Mahmoud. He graduated in Iran and the University Computer Tehran Province - inventor of the first rank in all universities in Tehran province. In the field Medical and machine translation and linguistics, and nano and physico … Voice of our drug Tvanystym we Drsk. Ie drugs to sound the same but with the same effect that you are taking medication Please. Because...
“Sugar scares me too, obviously. I’d like to eat it in moderation. I’d certainly...”
– Is Sugar Toxic? - NYTimes.com
“People pay to see others believe in themselves. Maybe people don’t know whether...”
– Kim Gordon — “I’m Really Scared When I Kill In My Dreams” (1983)
“a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via blood-head)
sounds perfect.
A Message To Graduating MBA’s →
bijan:
via @bfeld
Don’t worry about money right now. You can always get a job that pays you plenty of money. Don’t worry about your resume. Don’t worry about “am I positioning myself the right way for something five years from now.” I know way too many 45 year olds who have plenty of money, have done all the right career things, yet are unhappy with where they are in life, where they live, and...
“Surrender is the moment when you say, “I bet every single one of those...”
– The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
I grapple with this daily.
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“Among the constantly connected, many say they suddenly lack the focus and...”
– All those tweets, apps, updates may drain brain | www.sfgate.com | Readability
“You wouldn’t say that a doctor is entitled to believe his patients were sick...”
– The conversation: Is there any place for religious faith in science? | Comment is free | The Guardian
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
acronym: “when you think about it” a feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking to organ transplants, life insurance and fiction—part of the faint background noise of absurdity that reverberates from the moment our ancestors first crawled out of the slime, but could not for the life of them remember what it...
“Suppose that an archaeologist who had visited from outer space were trying to...”
– The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
“Besides malnutrition, starvation, and epidemic diseases, farming helped bring...”
– The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
“Streaming social media have an immediacy that is very different from, say, a...”
– How Social Media Can Induce Feelings of ‘Missing Out’ - NYTimes.com 