August 2011
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via storygoes)
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“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than...”
– Nawal El Saadawi (via aganju)
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“I know you’re a complete stranger, but I’d gladly waste one of my Spotify...”
– From McSweeney’s awesome list of “Ineffective Pick-Up Lines for the Modern Internet Persona” (via cnnmoneytech)
“Threats, promises, and good intentions don’t amount to actions.”
– Cheshire Cat [Alice: Madness Returns] (via quote-book)
Elephants hold funerals? →
“Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth “You owe me”.
Look...”
– Hafiz (a Persian poet of the 1300’s)
“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head....”
– Tad Williams (via sleachta)
“Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it...”
– Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an...”
– Lemony Snicket (The Beatrice Letters)
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is...”
– Denis Waitley (via bodymindandsoul)
“If you are you breathe. If you breathe you talk. If you talk you ask. If you ask...”
– National Geographic (via aquaticuss)
The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking... →
psychotherapy:
A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.
Excerpt:
Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not...
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)
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Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue? →
kittivanilli:
“No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expending...
“I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own...”
– Sasha Azevedo (via makes-me-smile)
“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free,...”
– Ram Dass (via psychotherapy)
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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about...”
– Stephen Hawking (via brfiction)
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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
– Joseph Conrad (via makes-me-smile)
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How...”
– Arnold Lobel (via onherway)
“How would it feel to live in a world where we choose our highest right and not...”
– Richard Bach (via onherway)
“I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think,...”
– Richard Branson (via onherway)
“If you feel like you have things under control, you aren’t going fast...”
– Mario Andretti
“Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.”
– Steven Covey
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough...”
– Herm Albright (via heartmindspirit) 