October 2012
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paradoxes
naomijade:
“Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.”
- Sam Harris
“The central paradox of love: almost everything we do is to protect us from pain, but most of the pain we feel comes from this protective behaviour.”
- Andrew G Marshall
“When you’re habituated to constant stimulation, when you lack it, you sort...”
– Have smartphones killed boredom (and is that good)? - CNN.com
RIP Boredom.
“I came up with rules to de-clutter my training and nutrition and hence, life....”
– De-cluttering training and nutrition « Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and...”
– Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 32 — Infoplease.com
“In the not so distant future, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer...”
– Title and Synopsis Revealed for Spike Jonze’s Futuristic New Film, Starring Joaquin Phoenix — thefilmstage.com — Readability
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“An e-book is not a physical book. That point might seem trite until you stop for...”
– How to Make a Book Disappear - Maria Konnikova - The Atlantic
“What is criticism? Karl Marx had a pretty good idea. On a perfect day in a...”
– “A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical.” (via marathonpacks)
“if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other...”
– DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, IN HIS OWN WORDS | More Intelligent Life
“One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via sherahsbrains)
“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music, and...”
– A counterintuitive model for how music and creativity work from David Byrne (via explore-blog)
“You don’t get to have everything or everyone you want. And a lifetime of...”
– Miranda July
“Our experience online is less that of the unprejudiced intellectual than that of...”
– Amazon Kindle: Daily Review
“The industrial age challenged us to rethink the limits of the human body: Where...”
– Amazon Kindle: Daily Review
“Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than...”
– Barbara Marciniak (via naomijade)
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they...”
– Anaïs Nin (via naomijade)
“If attention is indeed the currency of the future, and those who can focus their...”
– Attention Is the New Currency | From the Bell Tower (via infoneer-pulse)
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...”
– Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
“For you to grow, there has to be something in your life that is difficult and...”
– What Is Your Project?
“Why is it despite the stacks of unread books and links, we still go around...”
– Twitter / berkun: Why is it despite the stacks …
“We want the collection of information to solve our problems. We don’t actually want to have act.” -@cherly_u_jest
“Instead of trying to directly challenge American colleges—a daunting...”
– The Siege of Academe – Kevin Carey on breaching the walls of higher education (via explore-blog)
i’m thinking they will be called “resumes”
(via bonesandroots)
“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi) 