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May 8, 2013 / 11 notes
#tea #quotes
May 8, 2013 / 50 notes

But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.



We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed 

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May 8, 2013 / 21,475 notes
May 7, 2013 / 11 notes

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#inspiration
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
Robert Brault
May 7, 2013 / 3 notes
#quotes #soulmate
May 7, 2013 / 6 notes
#inspiration #Wilderness
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
Walt Whitman 

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May 4, 2013 / 380 notes
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves” ~ Gilbert Highet
May 3, 2013 / 1 note

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves” ~ Gilbert Highet

#books #quotes
I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don’t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid’s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it’s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it’s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (“I’m not a big one for paying compliments…”), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter, a bit more Gene Kelly dancing in the rain.
Jonathan Carroll 

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May 3, 2013 / 34,725 notes
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson 

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May 3, 2013 / 14,713 notes
In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.
Don Draper, “The Wheel” 

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May 3, 2013 / 8,664 notes
May 2, 2013 / 5 notes

Just found Passenger’s music - Its so good, a real blend of all sorts of genres. 

#newmusic #Passenger #music #songs
“Let your heart be your compass to keep your path true when traveling through the wilds of humanity.”  ~ Old Moss Woman
May 1, 2013 / 4,224 notes

“Let your heart be your compass to keep your path true when traveling through the wilds of humanity.”  ~ Old Moss Woman

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  “You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.” ~ How I Met Your Mother
May 1, 2013 / 158 notes

 

“You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.”

~ How I Met Your Mother

‘In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, ‘This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.’ And the niche may be small and dark, but at last you will finally know what you are doing. After thirty years or more of floundering around and screwing up, you will finally know, and when you get serious you will be dealing with the one thing you’ve been avoiding all along – your wounds. This is very painful. It stops a lot of people early on who didn’t get into this for the pain…
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.’
-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Apr 25, 2013
#quotes #writing #reading