February 2012
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of...
– Leo Rosten (via creatingaquietmind)
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theatlanticvideo:
A Photographer’s Return to 19th-Century Tools and Life in a Cabin
John Coffer, a tintype photographer, has spent the past 25 years living a Thoreauvian existence in a cabin in New York. This beautifully shot documentary is one in a series of short films, This Must Be the Place, which explores the idea of home and the connection between people and their most personal spaces, by...
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January 2012
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In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in...
– C. S. Lewis (Thank you, veareflejos)
December 2011
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Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. It is a violation...
– U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • Giving vocal support to the plight of oppressed LGBT persons worldwide, at a meeting of diplomats in Geneva. Clinton’s speech is being hailed as a landmark event in terms of U.S. foreign policy towards LGBT rights, and dovetails with the Obama...
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There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being part of creating...
– Ilya Zhitomirskiy (R.I.P.)
November 2011
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Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...
– Stephen Colbert (via clevercarousel)
October 2011
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Carefully watch your thoughts for they become your words. Manage and watch your...
– Ghandi (via salveo) #quote (via escapeintolife)
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Dream dreams,
then write them.
Aye, but live them first.
– Samuel Eliot Morison
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...
– Steve Jobs
August 2011
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You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your...
– The Buddha (via scott-mcleod)
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Closer than Ever to the Moon
songsparrowsings:
Photographer/Source is http://www.laurentlaveder.com/. His images were also used for a Canon EOS 400D campaign in France.
May 2011
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April 2011
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I’m such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and...
– bell hooks
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Imagine you got through everybody’s list, until everything you...
– NPR
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Things to read if you need something to read
Funny.
justpartoftheuniverse:
-Epicetus is good to read if people are making fun of you
-Schopenhaeur is good to read if you’re an art-loving, depressed, sex-addict
-Nietzsche is good to read if you’re pissed off at your Christian parents and need witty things to yell at them
-The Transcendentalists are good to read if you need things to yell while running through the forest naked
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It’s an ad for Oxford’s business school – but more than that it’s an inspirational video with a wicked rise at the end.
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