January 2010
44 posts
If.....
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not...
It’s interesting to note how corporations get to pick and choose the good parts...
– Max Barry riffs on the recent US Supreme Court decision. (Max Barry | The Lawnmower People)
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to...
– Oscar Wilde
Mamihlapinatapais
From the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, is considered the world’s most succinct word — and the hardest to translate. It means “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but that neither one wants to start.”
I have no more left to give
I gave and gave and gave. The tank is empty. There is nothing left to offer. I’m moving on with my life. I’m moving forward. It’ll be ten times harder. I’m scared.
It will be worth it.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy...
– Leo Tolstoy
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau
I'm an asshole
So I just returned from my “vacation” from India. It had its ups and downs. It wasn’t relaxing though.
I, for many reasons, don’t really like my station in life. My friends often ask “why do you have such extravagant tastes” and the answer is simple. I’d rather dream big than not at all. I want the best because it is a nice temporary reprieve from my...
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together…there is something...
– Winnie The Pooh