June 2011
53 posts
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jtotheizzoe:
Are you ready to have your mind blown? Seriously, put some cotton in your ears, because your grey matter is in danger of liquifying and seeping out of your noggin. This is very cool.
Apparently there’s annual awards given out for “best anagram”. I know, obvious thing to give awards for,…
Whaaaat. How cool is that?!
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received,...”
– Mother Teresa (via atomos)
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live...”
– Swami Vivekananda
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that...”
– Joseph Campbell
Anonymous asked: are you a medical student?
sillydreamer asked: omgosh .. i LOUUUVVEEEE ur tumblr. it is as its name, inspiring beyond believe ! thank you so much for having this tumblr . just to let you know it will lift my spirit day to day :D ur wonderful
“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food.”
– Hippocrates
“How to be a better writer: read more and write more.”
– My English teacher
"Careful with Your Work" by Paulo Coelho
As a boy, Abin-Alsar overheard a conversation between his father and a dervish.
“Careful with your work”, said the dervish. “Think of what future generations will say about you.” “So what?”, replied his father, “When I die, everything shall end, and it will not matter what they say.”
Abin-Alsar never forgot that conversation.
During his whole life, he made an effort to do good, to help people...
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via jtotheizzoe)
“You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and...”
– Conan O’Brien’s Commencement Address to Dartmouth Class of 2011
Saudi women defy driving ban
Fueled by Women2Drive, a campaign demanding the right for women to drive and travel freely in Saudi Arabia, Kurdi and other Saudi women commanded streets and roads normally reserved for men.
There are no specific traffic laws that make it illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia. However, religious edicts are often interpreted as a prohibition of female drivers. Such edicts also prevent...
“Beyond this world of wrong-doings and right-doings there is a field, and I will...”
– Rumi
Anaïs Nin on Writing
“Why one writes is a question I can never answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me – the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe,...
chillino asked: hi! I love your blog, keep on inspiring people! :)
“Don’t let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in...”
– Paulo Coelho
“One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to...”
– Steven Furtick (via eatingelephants)
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via liketheopensea)
FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: Women's Ambition Gap
Of course not everyone wants to jump into the workforce and rise to the top. Life is going to bring many twists and turns, and each of us, each of you, have to forge your own path. I have deep respect for my friends who make different choices than I do, who choose the really hard job of raising children full time, who choose to go part time, or who choose to pursue more nontraditional goals. These...
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a...”
– Brian Tracy
“I shall take the heart… for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the...”
– The Tinman from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum (via shubacca)
“Now we know that when people are on ARVs, the antiretrovirals that are used to...”
– Sharonann Lynch, HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor for MSF’s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (via doctorswithoutborders)
Drug makes hearts repair themselves →
How cool is this?
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and...”
– Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist and won two Nobel Prizes.
“There’s a trick to the “graceful exit.” It begins with the vision to recognize...”
– Ellen Goodman (via thresca) 