May 2011
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“Life has no meaning a priori. Before you live it, life is nothing, but it is for...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1943 (via ruinawish)
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“…the Maiden lets you know that here, in eight days, she has chased the English...”
– Joan of Arc’s Letter to the citizens of Tournai, 25 June 1429
image: Joan of Arc dictated her letters. Three of the surviving ones are signed.
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Bootstrap paradox →
bestofwikipedia:
The bootstrap paradox is a paradox of time travel in which information or objects can exist without having been created. After information or an object is sent back in time, it is recovered in the present and becomes the very object/information that was initially brought back in time in the first place. Numerous science fiction stories are based on this paradox, which has also...
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“There are no national boundaries, no laws, no man-made rules that trump the law...”
– Invisible Children (via awakenourworld)
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Soderling continues love affair with Paris →
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Mr Steve Jobs (via ratak-monodosico)
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“The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in...”
– Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction (via libraryland)
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Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022 →
alwaysinrepair:
Germany’s coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country’s nuclear power plants phased out by 2022. The decision makes Germany the biggest industrial power to announce plans to give up nuclear energy.
Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen made the announcement following late-night talks. Chancellor Angela Merkel set up a panel to review...
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“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing...”
– Brennan Manning (via dreamofwhatcanbe)
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“Any story can be a happy story if the author wants it to be. It’s just a matter...”
– Stephen Elliot, Coming & Crying (via 52hearts)
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“Why do we do this? I like to think of these confabulations as necessary...”
– Jonah Lehrer, The Frontal Cortex (via The Murder Mile)
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“My old lipcolor could barely keep up with my busy schedule. In the time that it...”
– Maria Bamford, “How to WIN!” (via ammrva)
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“Parents are all alike - my mother says just the same thing. She says: I have...”
– Toyo from Kurosawa Akira’s “Ikiru” (via yuumegari)
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“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise,...”
– - John C. Maxwell
The Essential and Timeless Guide to Motivating Yourself
(via dreameveryday)
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“It’s easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene… Highs and lows make you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via cjhwang)
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With That Moon Language, by Hafiz
benchbynight:
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”
Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise,
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us
to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon
in each eye that is always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in this world is...
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“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can’t define it. I like reading...”
– Aleksandar Hemon (via vespertinemoments)
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le printemps: "Blessed", Katie Cappello →
rabbit-light:
The ground is hardening again after the long rain and I feel stable enough to run, hard and fast, cold air burning my chest, with the dog just ahead, stolen roses in my hands. They are candy-cane striped, disgustingly pink and heavy on their woody stems. I’ll put them in water, in a jelly jar, place it on the countertop for you. Darling. If I had nothing else to say, then this...
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theepitomeofquiet:
Clutter is a manifestation of a) holding onto the past and b) fear of what might happen in the future.
Letting go of clutter is a way to live more mindfully and in the present.
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Quiet force of Federer sweeps into the fourth... →
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“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to...”
– Lynda Barry (via echolocate)
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“If I’d been somone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different,...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via illusies)
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“You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via tinmancomplex) 