February 2010
47 posts
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin
January 2010
163 posts
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”
– Josiah Royce
“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
– William James
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
– Isaac Asimov
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”
– Dorothy Parker
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created...”
– Albert Einstein
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday...”
– Jane Austen
Happiness Project's Interview with Leo Babauta
Gretchen: What's something you know now about happiness that you didn't know when you were 18 years old
Leo: For most people, happiness is a choice (unless you have clinical depression or something like that). This isn't immediately obvious to most of us, especially just starting out in life, because we think we need a good job or a good spouse or a good income or a nice house and car or world travel in order to be happy. But happiness isn't about any of that. It's about wanting to be happy, and living your life so that you're happy. It's about staying positive and seeing the good things in everything.
50 Steps to Simple Happiness →
On the following pages, you won’t find long-term, expensive fixes like therapy, pharmaceuticals, or a three-week jaunt to the Maldives. What you will find are quick, easy, and affordable ideas for feeling good in body and spirit, as well as bits of modern folk wisdom, some goofier than others, from a range of experts.
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of...”
– Carlos Castaneda
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same...”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien (via megmess)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– — Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
(via quote-book)
Children Speak for Same-Sex Marriage:
littlemiss:
LAST month, advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage packed the New Jersey State House in Trenton, supporters in blue, opponents in red. Near the end of the day, Kasey Nicholson-McFadden took the microphone. “It doesn’t bother me to tell kids my parents are gay,” he said in a clear voice. “It does bother me to say they aren’t married. It makes me feel that our family is less than...
“The attitudes of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will...”
– Alexander Lockhart (via littlemiss)
How to Lower Stress
Go to bed thirty minutes earlier than usual. Get up twenty minutes earlier than usual. Before you go to sleep, prepare for the morning. Bring a hat and an umbrella. Don’t wear tight clothes or uncomfortable shoes. Make a list. Listen to a favorite song. Keep extra cash and stamps in the house. Be polite and be fair. Laugh out loud. Have a good book to read. Keep an extra set of keys. ...
25 Questions that Provoke Thought
iamthecrime:m-altruism:
What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
Do you believe in the death penalty? What if someone murdered your mother in cold blood? What if someone murdered a stranger’s mother, but saved your life the month before?
If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that...
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via littlemiss)
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for...”
– Rita Mae Brown (via gatekeeper)
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you...”
– Epicurus (via reluctantbuddha)
Curiosity →
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via littlemiss)
“A female colleague once told me advice that I must share with my daughter, and...”
– Randy Pausch (via gatekeeper)
