July 2011
“Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen...”
– Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl (via theepitomeofquiet)
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast...”
A Message from Severus Snape →
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Dear Tumblr,
I need your help! I have to come up with a topic for my term paper. It has to be about gender differences. For example: Are women smarter than men? Is single-sex schooling a good thing? (Blahblah, of course: it needs to be a lot more interesting and specific than this…) Pretty please: Does anyone have an idea?
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning...”
– Brian Tracy
Art is better with cats. →
“Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here,...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything....”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (via nirvikalpa)
Mumford & Sons - “Home/Untitled”...
The Frenemy., What I'd (Rather) Do In My Bed Than... →
hilarious.
A good example of this is a technique Benny Lewis uses to remember vocabulary words. First he comes up with a picture for the definition of the word. Then he comes up with a picture for the foreign language word, by trying to pin it on what it “sounds like”. Finally, he blends the two up in a bizarre example to sear it into memory. The French word gare (train station) becomes GARfield running to...
“So hard to accept that the prison door is open and we could walk out if we truly...”
– Alain de Botton
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Note to self for future reference
You just made amazing dinner. This is how you did it:
You took some leftover frozen butter veggies and put them in a pan. You added one kohlrabi, a big scoop of crème fraîche and squeezed one whole lemon over it. You added some water, waited until it boiled and threw some couscous over that to soak up the liquid. You roasted it all a bit. It was delicious. Please make it again!
“Being deprived of things stimulates creativity more than being well-off.”
– Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical...”
– Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers,...”
– Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Jay's Tiny House Tour →
Incredible. Oh, and make sure to watch the last seconds of the video ;)
Our (Extended) Summer Must-Do List →
Food in Jars - A Canning Blog →
omg, yes.
Happy Couples: Gay Marriages in NYC - Photo... →
this is really moving
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Today I started rewatching Six Feet Under. EXACTLY the right strategy to ace my exam tomorrow… oh yes. But I almost forgot how much I love this show. Love love love.
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“Wir, die Bewohner der Tiefe, ersuchen die Finder, uns zu erfinden.”
– Michael Ende
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“Das Neue, die Wandlung, kommt immer vom nichtbeachteten, ja sogar verachteten...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
