January 2012
15 posts
Birthday Stories - Giveaway!!!
harukimurakami:
Okay so as I don’t have much free time I’m keeping this simple.
Reblog this post as many times as you like.
This is open for one week until the 4th Feb 2012.
I will use a random online generator to choose a winner.
I will post anywhere in the world that my post office will deliver to.
I can’t be held responsible if the postal service lose it though.
I will not do anything...
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This may sound blasphemous...
…but sometimes I wonder if God created the concept of ambivalence as an autopilot mechanism for answering prayers.
Well, see… many-a-times when people say that their prayers are answered, they are actually seeing the silver lining in their dark cloud. And see again, nothing in this world was created perfect; everything has its positives and negatives. I mean, zillions of people pray...
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Quit Your Job. Buy A Ticket. Get A Tan. Fall In...
I wished. I really wished.
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So, I broke down and bought a uke yesterday....
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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
December 2011
7 posts
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
– Colette
“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at...”
– In the Woods, Tana French (via thosethingswecallbooks)
“Every positive change—every jump to a higher level of energy and...”
– Dan Millman (via inspiri)
Bookmarking for future reference.
“I don’t consider myself unfeminine at all. I think I’m very girlie. I like lots...”
– Martha Plimpton
‘Vulnerable, loveable, malleable’
November 2011
3 posts
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“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...”
– Albert Einstein (Thank you, lovespulse)
Sorry if I sound skeptical / cynical, but did Einstein really say this?
October 2011
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“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a...”
– Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (via planetickets)
Sheesh.
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September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
2 posts
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Learning Esperanto
plastic-nyan:
Seriously dedicating myself to it for the rest of the year. Does anyone else speak it/know anyone who does/want to learn it too?
Mi! Sed mi ne havas sufiĉan motivadon, ĉar tio havas sufiĉajn nek librojn nek filmojn en Esperanto. Sed, se vi intencas skribi en Esperanto, mi sekvos vin por aplikadas ĉi tiun :)
Loosely translated (into what I really intend to say): Me! But I...
July 2011
13 posts
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“He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a...”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via thosethingswecallbooks)
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I found out today...
highstme:
…that perhaps, one of the best ways to listen to any song is to get familiar with it, until you know every word and think you can re-create all the instrumentation in your head at will. Then, shelf it for some years or so, the longer the better. Let it sit, let it ferment, let it whatever. Get on with life and simply let time do the work while it lies in wait with the other forgotten...
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“A man not of your own blood can break upon your emotions more than someone of...”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via thosethingswecallbooks)
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thosethingswecallbooks:
The Histories by Herodotus
Mentioned:
1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
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“To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgement. A bath in the...”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via thosethingswecallbooks)
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“She went out from school with the uncomfortable sense of being a square peg, which fitted into none of the round holes of the world; the wisdom she had got, the experience she was richer by, had, in the process of equipping her for life, merely seemed to disclose her unfitness. She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found; seeming unfitness...
“To be humble is to take specific actions in anticipation of your own errors. To...”
– http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/
“…everywhere and always, even while you revelled in them, things were...”
– On the “fleetingness of things”, Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom
June 2011
2 posts
“i never change, i simply become more myself.”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via emilybefree)
Yes, we don’t change. We simply become.
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May 2011
9 posts
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Melbourne Library Service Staff Favourites →
A list that I’m gonna slowly work through.
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