March 2012
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I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I...
– John Cheever (via treeswithoutleaves)
February 2012
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What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via 24ribs)
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"People have a hard time letting go of their...
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or...
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via winterlief)
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
– Chinese Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
January 2012
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Just be yourself, Utterly yourself. And don’t be bothered about what kind of...
– Osho (via babydoll1976)
so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in...
– ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
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How much do you trust your Internet Service Provider? What if they were monitoring your every move, turning over your personal information, or reporting your activity to the authorities? This isn't some hypothetical, nightmare scenario. It's the reality we are all facing...
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
– Rita Mae Brown (via @JoySoldiers)
Do not swim - float.
– Osho
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with...
– Mary Anne Radmacher
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that,...
– Carl Sagan
I have to remember that I have the ability to end things I don’t like and to say...
– The Fortunes of Indigo Skye, Deb Caletti
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December 2011
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -Epicurus
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“Nothing is more ironic, innocent, and disappointing than hoping or even praying to do well when actions determine otherwise.”
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November 2011
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.
– Paulo Coelho (via yogachocolatelove)
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Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it...
– Paulo Coelho (via creatingaquietmind)
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Forget about how you think things “should” be. There is no such thing as...
– @_NealeDWalsch (via wordslessspoken)
October 2011
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I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow...
– –from Harold and Maude
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The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from you more...
– Jim Henson
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You know you’ve found a gentleman when he lends you not only his coat for the walk, but his belt as well. <3
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Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in...
– George Harrison (via binnyyy)
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There are people whose bad just doesn’t outweigh their good and it’s not fair that the weight somehow gets hung around your neck and not theirs.
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put me on a highway
You know I’ve always been a dreamer (spent my life running ‘round) And it’s so hard to change (Can’t seem to settle down) But the dreams I’ve seen lately Keep on turning out and burning out And turning out the same So put me on a highway And show me a sign And take it to the limit one more time You can spend all your time making money You can spend all your love...
September 2011
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury (via danceabletragedy)
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A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear...
– Stephan Hoeller (via onherway)
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By age 32, Fuller was bankrupt and jobless, living in public, low-income housing in Chicago, Illinois. In 1922, Fuller’s young daughter Alexandra died from complications from polio and spinal meningitis. Allegedly, he felt responsible and this caused him to drink frequently and to contemplate suicide for a while. He finally chose to embark on “an experiment, to find what a single...
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One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because...
– Bertrand Russell
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Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have...
– Patrick Ness (via creatingaquietmind)
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You have to save yourself from so many good-intentioned people, do-gooders, who...
– Osho (via thefreenomad)
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The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate...
– Terry Goodkind (via kari-shma)