September 2012
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Looks like it’s going to be a busy quarter at UCSD! Which is why I must say farewell to Tumblr.
Farewell Tumblr. Your powers of generating funny pictures, thought-provoking quotes and other interesting trivia (but of little practical worth in the real world) are no longer needed. It’s been fun procrastinating with you.
The planet does not need more ‘successful’ people. The planet desperately needs...
– Dalai Lama
Learn the difference between love and obsession.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Try a little harder to be a little better.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You...
– C.S. Lewis
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone...
– Eartha Kitt
To search for the lovely little things that are good for the soul.
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That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...
– Paulo Coehlo
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I like simple people. Not to say, people who are shallow or one-dimensional.
Simplicity (noun) /simˈplisitē/ Definition:
The quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.
The quality or condition of being plain or natural.
People who are straightforward with their thinking, honest and direct when speaking. People who employ actions instead of flowery words to express their...
When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great...
– Osho
To you, who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
– Dedication in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
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It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells.
To...
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
– Morticia Addams
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper...
– Jeremiah 29:11
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C is for the conversation my lips have with your spine
(a wordless exchange...
– fleurishes.tumblr.com
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one...
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You say everyone’s depressed, but that’s not true. The world has been devalued...
– Emily Bar, Plan B
i’m at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
– Alice Hoffman, Green Witch
A certain darkness is required to see the stars.
– Osho (via poetic-bullshit)
I have faith that what happens is for the best, whether I understand it or not.
– (via mitchvillareal)
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Every culture has developed drugs ranging from peyote to heroin to alcohol in an...
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
As is true of addiction in general, material rewards at first enrich the quality...
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of...
– Leo Rosten
How to Talk to Women:
thisisnthelpful:
1. talk
He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.
– Richard Siken, from “Anyway”
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I guess I could be really pissed off about what happened to me… but...
– American Beauty
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go...
– Jeanette Winterson
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younghabitats:
things that say a lot about people: the way which they treat the waiter/waitress how they feel about the weather whether they dog ear pages or highlight in books fingernails and hands in general their preferred creative outlet how much they dread/enjoy talking on the phone whether or not they drink coffee if they ever forget to eat how honest they are with themselves...
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above...
– Henry David Thoreau