February 2012
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Leap year meditation
Once in four years, just once, perhaps we could:
Forgive, forget, relax, care, stand out, speak up, contribute, embrace, create, make a ruckus, give credit, skip, smile, speak truth and refuse to compromise—more than we usually do. Pick just one or two and start there.
Hey, it’s just one day.
Careful, though, it might become a habit.
via - Seth Godin
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“Never, ever, ever, ever underestimate the power of “I’d like that.”
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“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“Start out perfect, and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best...”
– Miss Ms. Piggy (thanks, D)
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Hell-Raising Heroines: Three Ladies With Spitfire
She’s a woman, short in temper and long in neurotic tics, whose life is defined by her worst choices. If she’s not insecure and sharp-tongued, she’s prone to extended sulky spells. If she’s not marrying an arrogant man, she’s becoming an arrogant married man’s mistress. Maybe she’s young and hopelessly narcissistic, yet endlessly rejectable. ...
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Post tenebras lux.
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Mum bought me a cape
Me: Ma! Cape just arrived. EEK!
Mum: Ok, good. All done!
Me: All I need now is a Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester to fall in love with me, lie about a madwoman in an attic, and then go blind.
Mum: YES! ANYBODY!
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“Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of...”
– Gustave Flaubert (to Louise Colet)
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“Kiss me and you’ll know how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Beginners
Hal: Well, let's say that since you were little, you always dreamed of getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait but the lion doesn't come. And along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I'd wait for the lion.
Hal: That's why I worry about you.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Perry v. Brown (via vigneshram)
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Things to Worry About →
emphasisadded:
In 1933, F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with the following:
Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about...
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“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all...”
– The Incantation of Frida K - Kate Braverman
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The Believer - Joan Didion →
peterwknox:
The full interview, up now.
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