December 2009
“Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the...”
– Samuel Smiles (via nihilnoetia)
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via nihilnoetia)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
– Henry James (via nihilnoetia)
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all...”
– Rachel Carson (via nihilnoetia)
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via psychotherapy)
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging...”
– Walt Whitman (via veronicles) (via nihilnoetia)
“On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice,...”
– Marguerite Yourcenar (via nihilnoetia)
“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two....”
– Arthur Stanley Eddington (via nihilnoetia)
“You start out life with a clean slate. Then you begin to make your mark. You...”
– The Wonder Years (via littlemiss)
“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being...”
– Revolutionary Road (via thingsgohazy) (via nihil-inherit) (via nihilnoetia)
The Smart Ass Guide to Dealing with Dream Zappers →
nihilnoetia:
bridgettelizabeth:
They are Dream Zappers (DZ), and they’re coming to an aspiration near you.
You’ve probably come across one before. They’re the ones making passive aggressive comments any time you experience success. They’re the ones who are are quick to find fault in your ideas, pointing out the immediate flaws and assuring you why your idea won’t work. They’re the ones...
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts...”
– Bertrand Russell (via nihilnoetia)
“When the mind is concentrated and turned back on itself, all within us will be...”
– Swami Vivekananda (via karmayogi54) (via prospekt)
Watchprospekt:
Synchronized Robot Christmas Dance
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!
“Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,...”
– William Ernest Henley
“With every problem, every struggle, and every difficulty,
there is always an...”
“I can’t understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the...”
– Hans Hoffmann (via nihilnoetia)
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made...”
– Hunter Stockton Thompson (via rulesformyunbornson) (via prospekt)
Huh, interesting…
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer...”
– Dr. Seuss (via robot-heart)
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...”
– Anais Nin (via nihilnoetia)
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about...”
– Thomas Pynchon (via nihilnoetia)
“The first thing consumers can do is to stop spending money they don’t have on...”
– Deepak Chopra, who’s on CNN right now. Preach. (via missbrightside)
“The only real prison is fear”
– Aung San Suu Kyi (via nihilnoetia)
“I will accept the rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via nihilnoetia)
“Better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”
– Margaret Fuller (via nihilnoetia)
“There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the...”
– Herbert B. Prochnow (via littlemiss)
“You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without...”
– Robert Frost (via nihilnoetia)
“You say that you are my judge. I don’t know if you are — but take care not to...”
– Joan of Arc (via nihilnoetia)
“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via nihilnoetia)
Rejection massively reduces IQ (New Scientist) →
psychotherapy:
Rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. “But we’ve found that randomly assigning students...
“I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him.”
– Galileo Galilei (via nihilnoetia)
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept...”
– Harvey S. Firestone (via bitchville) (via nihilnoetia)
“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness...”
– Douglas Adams (via nihilnoetia)
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via nihilnoetia)
“The only people who can truly know your story are the ones who helped you write...”
– (via bitchville) (via nihilnoetia)
“Life is a little worth living — or worth living a little; but would remark that,...”
– Henry James (via nihilnoetia)
“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
– Pearl S. Buck (via nihilnoetia)
“Why should things be easy to understand?”
– Thomas Pynchon (via nihilnoetia)
“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it...”
– Bono (via nihilnoetia)
“I love strange choices. I’m always interested in people who depart from what is...”
– Cate Blanchett (via nihilnoetia)
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via nihilnoetia)