July 2010
June 2010
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
—Lao Tzu (via yasmina91) (via quote-book)
“This isn’t life, it’s just stuff. And it’s become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that’s just nuts!”
—Lester Burnham, American Beauty (via filmlovers) (via driftingfocus)
“It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
—Rose Kennedy | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
“Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’ In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’ Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself.”
—John Green (via sleepswithbutterflies) (via effyeahnerdfighters) (via lettingitbe) (via wishuponalightbulb)
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“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
—Samuel Johnson (via lavenderdays)
IfItWasMyHome.com - Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster →
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If it still hasn’t hit you hard enough, the maps make it worse. It’s soo huge.
The live feed from under the water was pretty disgusting, too.
Kung Fu Bear 'genuine' - Telegraph →
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This is a really adorable bear. I’m sure someone at the zoo probably taught it to him, but I’m still impressed
May 2010
“Be not dishearten’d —Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.”
—Walt Whitman (via susieqxx)
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…”
—Uncle Walt, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855. Happy birthday, Poetic Spirit of America! (via lessonsofdarkness)
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.” — Flannery O’Connor”
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