January 2012
7 posts
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Too true, too true.
Be mindful
“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”
Eckhart Tolle
December 2011
14 posts
HIGHLIGHTED LIFE: Eggers Rant →
sydni:
fuckyeahcliffordmattis:
gutty:
I had read and enjoyed this rant a few years ago when I read it, but I just stumbled upon it again today. I think he talks a lot about not letting the judgments of others play into your everyday decision making. Anyway I could never do it justice so I will post my favorite part here:
You want to know how big a sellout I am? A few months ago I wrote...
Random people: You might be happy →
Her mind is full of situations that will never happen. But they do happen, in her mind, over and over again. All the worst case scenarios, the best case scenarios and every single scenario in between. She imagines unimaginable situations, conversations, happenings. In her mind everything is possible, even the impossible. Sometimes her brain is so busy calculating all the ‘what-ifs?’, it has no...
“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via human-voices)
Some people, some people and their way with words.
November 2011
24 posts
In response to my teaching lesson:
This is it. This is what I WANT to do with the rest of my life. I WANT to work with international students and give to them knowledge of the English language. After teaching my lesson today I feel so happy, and yes it is that simple of a feeling. The adrenaline is pumping through my heart and brain and I am ready to go, and to explore this language with new learners of it. That sounds so geeky I...
woodennest:
Those days when you just feel beautiful and good and perfect exactly where you are. They don’t come as often as they should, but when they do, I cherish them.
To be totally honest with you all… I feel this way right now. AND IT IS AN AMAZING FEELING. Please never leave, but if you have to…come again, real soon.
So beautifully said...
mols:
I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and saw them crying in their bed at night or singing in the shower or humming quietly to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street. And even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think, after...
“I must learn to love the fool in me — the one who feels too much, talks too...”
– Theodore I. Rubin, MD (via modernhepburn)
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their...
“We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our...”
– Buddha (via human-voices)
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (via human-voices)
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
1 post
1 tag
To Future Generations
mols:
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