May 2012
1 post
No, Honey.
Don’t do it. You’ve been there before. You got through it. You got past it.
Don’t fall for it again. You’ll be okay. You’ll be alright.
On to the next one, on to the next one…
April 2012
3 posts
“When there’s nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire.”
February 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
The 3 symptoms of killing our dreams
by PAULO COELHO
The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the Good...
November 2011
5 posts
THE TWEAKER | The real genius of Steve Jobs.
by Malcolm Gladwell
Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was. This time, he had a wife and...
On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful...
By Haruki Murakami
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn’t young, either - must be...
October 2011
8 posts
“Love is but a prelude to life, an overture in which the theme of the impending...”
– George Santayana, The Life of Reason
3 tags
September 2011
4 posts
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
August 2011
6 posts
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
– Jack Layton
“In the end, everyone loses everyone.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Gotta Have It by Kanye West & Jay-Z
Hello,...
July 2011
17 posts
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and...”
– Goethe
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not...”
– Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees....”
– Katie Couric
“We are what we know.”
– James Burke
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be...”
– John Adams
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
June 2011
14 posts
How to improve your dress
What Young Men Can Do to Improve Their Dress
It is often said that the first three things a woman looks at when she meets a man for the first time are his eyes, hands and shoes. If you happen to be lucky enough to pass this first level of inspection, you will surely be judged by your overall appearance and unless you are naked that means your dress. That is where an awful lot of young men miss...