June 2012
39 posts
“Other people are the best antidote to the downs of life and the single most reliable up. … My friend Stephen Post, professor of Medical Humanities at Stony Brook, tells a story about his mother. When he was a young boy, and his mother saw that he was in a bad mood, she would say, ‘Stephen, you are looking piqued. Why don’t you go out and help someone?’ Empirically,...
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“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it...”
– Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975)
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“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”
– Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)
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Figure it out.
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“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect,...”
– Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
“Breasts, it turns out, are a particularly fine mirror of our industrial lives. They accumulate more toxins than other organs and process them differently. “If human breast milk, nature’s perfect food, came stamped with an ingredients label, it would read something like this: 4 percent fat, vitamins A, C, E, and K, sugars, essential minerals, proteins, enzymes, and antibodies. It...
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“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only...”
– Albert Schweitzer
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Listen
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I’m currently obsessed with Kings of...
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Take a walk.
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“According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 78 percent of all Americans say that the Bible is the ‘word of God,’ and almost half of those believe that, as such, ‘it is to be taken literally, word for word.’ Polling data from the Barna Group indicate that nearly half of all Americans agree that ‘the Bible is totally accurate in all of its...
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Reason number 80 bajillion
Reason number 80 bajillion why I shouldn’t stay up super late working for hours and hours: in the wee hours of the night, I WILL FINISH OFF ALL THE LEFTOVER CHINESE FOOD. I WILL EAT IT. I WILL EAT IT ALL. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM SCARF SCARF MPH MPHNOM GULP MMMmmm…
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A song for
Someone who needs somewhere
To long...
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All the glory when He took our place
But He took...
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Live through this, and you won’t look...
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“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
– Goethe
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was...”
– Andre Gide
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“What had … helped to change Nietzsche’s outlook was his reflection on the few individuals throughout history who appeared genuinely to have known fulfilled lives; individuals who could fairly have been described-to use one of the most contested terms in the Nietzschean lexicon-as Ubermenschen. “The notoriety and absurdity of the word owe less to Nietzsche’s own...
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So I’ll lose some sales and my boss...
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“When I’m gone, please speak well of...
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Hmmmm… Maybe listening to The Weepies is...
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The world spins madly on.
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may...
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you are coming home
are you still alone
are you...
