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"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:28:16 -0400

“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it’s still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you’re like me, you just keep chasing the storm. The problem with chasing the storm is that it wears you down, breaks your spirit. Even the experts agree, a girl needs closure.”

- Veronica Mars (via larmoyante)
My life

The power of EMPATHY

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:39:54 -0500

tinyfacts:

A boy went to the pet store to buy a puppy,four of them sitting together priced Rs 5000 each.Then there was one sitting alone in a corner. The boy asked if that was from same litter,if it was for sale and why he was sitting alone.

The store owner replied it was from the same litter,it was deformed and not for sale.

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"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:32:54 -0500

“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.”

- Diana Cortes (via larmoyante)
Friends afar

absentions: All the Ghosts That Haunt Me You lost me..

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:27:27 -0500

absentions:

All the Ghosts That Haunt Me

You lost me..

destructs: February 11, 2013 I want to be present

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:24:51 -0500

destructs:

February 11, 2013

I want to be present

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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:27:54 -0500

literaryjukebox: There is nothing like looking, if you want...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:08:53 -0500

literaryjukebox:

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

Song: “True Love Will Find You In The End” by Jad Fair & Kramer

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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something,...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:59:32 -0500

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

This big world

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:40:27 -0500

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Devine Intervention..

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:35:52 -0500

Devine Intervention..

Ilovepeople. Everybody.Ilovethem,Ithink,asa stamp collector loveshis collection. Everystory, every...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:38:23 -0500

Ilovepeople. Everybody.Ilovethem,Ithink,asa stamp collector loveshis collection. Everystory, every incident, every bitofconversation israw materialfor me. Mylove’snot impersonalyet not whollysubjective either. Iwould like tobe everyone, acripple,adying man, awhore, and then comebacktowriteaboutmythoughts, my emotions, asthatperson.*ButIam not omniscient.Ihavetolivemylife,anditisthe onlyone I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your ownlife withobjective curiosity all the time

Love is everything

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:37:39 -0500

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self —struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence —you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they did’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:05:54 -0500

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you —of kindness and consideration and respect —not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:19:01 -0500

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:17:51 -0500

Hug a Teacher Tomorrow « Diane Ravitch's blog

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:45:57 -0500

Hug a Teacher Tomorrow « Diane Ravitch's blog:

bniche:

According to Diane Ravitch, a teacher in Louisiana posted this on Facebook and I believe this is unbelievably true for many of my colleagues and I:

”To parents who are not educators, this may be hard to understand.

Five days a week, we teach your kids.
That means we educate your kids.
Play with your kids.
Discipline your kids.
Joke with your kids.
Console your kids.
Praise your kids.
Question your kids.
Beat our head against a wall about your kids.
Laugh with your kids.
Worry about your kids.
Keep an eye on your kids.
Learn about your kids.
Invest in your kids.
Protect your kids and yes, love your kids.

WE WOULD ALL TAKE A BULLET FOR YOUR KIDS.

It’s nowhere in our job description.
It isn’t covered in the employee handbook.
It isn’t cited in our contracts.
But we would all do it.
So, yes, please hug your kids tonight, really, really tight.

But on Monday, if you see your kids’ teacher, please hug them too.”

We'll become Silhouettes

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:41:14 -0500

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:09:14 -0500

We'll become Silhouettes

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:58:05 -0500

Surrender

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:58:44 -0500

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.