Edison's Blackout

"As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:43:51 -0500

“As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does:
It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn’t just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.”

- Dr. Christiane Northrop

Hungry for Change

(via fightingformyfuture)

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dieindries: dont let a white girl in uggs tell you shit

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:15:47 -0500

dieindries:

dont let a white girl in uggs tell you shit

"Learn to like what doesn’t cost much. Learn to like reading, conversation, music. Learn to like..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:39:05 -0500

““Learn to like what doesn’t cost much.
Learn to like reading, conversation, music.
Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.
Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.
Learn to like people, even though some of them may be different…different from you.
Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction doing your job as well as it can be done.
Learn to like the song of birds, the companionship of dogs.
Learn to like gardening, puttering around the house, and fixing things.
Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.
Learn to keep your wants simple and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others.””

- Lowell C. Bennion (via larmoyante)

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:24:52 -0500

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard it goes away. And when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I’m a little piece of a big, big universe and that makes things right. When I die, the scientists of the future, they’re gonna find it all – they’re gonna know once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub.

"You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:17:17 -0500

“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch.

Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy.

You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.

If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way.

Set fire to your old self. It’s not needed here. It’s too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven’t gotten as far as you’d like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.

Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire—overwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn’t necessary.

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- Julien Smith (via thatkindofwoman)

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:47:57 -0500

"War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but..."

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:16:14 -0500

““War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other””

- Paul Valery (via historywars)

"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:44:57 -0500

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”

- Siddhārtha Gautama (via thatkindofwoman)

oldflorida: Florida faces, 1930.

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:37:37 -0500

oldflorida:

Florida faces, 1930.

oldflorida: Today in FSU history: Thursday, December 5, 1963,...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:29:35 -0500

oldflorida:

Today in FSU history: Thursday, December 5, 1963, Florida State University student and future rock star, Jim Morrison appeared in a campus theater production playing Gus in Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter.”

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly...."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:29:44 -0500

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”

- Island, Aldous Huxley (via loveyourchaos)

All right, close your eyes. What do you see?

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:58:01 -0400

All right, close your eyes. What do you see?

thepinesaredancing: nestofvellum: I found this caterpillar...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:26:38 -0400

thepinesaredancing:

nestofvellum:

I found this caterpillar for a peer’s insect collection. Knowing that he would ultimately meet his death, we decided to throw him a birthday party.

Dead.

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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:09:39 -0400

dunquan: me

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:51:11 -0400

dunquan:

me

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:36:43 -0400

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

- François Mauriac (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)

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