February 2013
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But the greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain,...
– Noah Levine. Against The Stream
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January 2013
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your...
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via labyrintho)
December 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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Summer Happiness
Happiness at the petrol garage hidden in the palm of his hand an almond Magnum ice cream for me? for meeee!
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if...
– Haruki Murakami (via spycnsweet)
July 2012
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extract from "The Far Side of the World" by...
A good piece of writing makes my soul shine. Hope you enjoy it too!
“…..he excused himself on the grounds of early work to be done and bade them good night, leaving them on a broad veranda with a number of domesticated creatures on it, marmosets of three different kinds, an old bald toucan, a row of sleepy parrots, something hairy in the background that might have been a sloth or an...
June 2012
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Strength shows, not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via sweetappletree)
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May 2012
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Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
– Hopi Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
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English Eccentrics
My book of the mo’ is English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell (first published by Faber & Faber in 1933). I love her mini cameo of Squire Mytton (who once shared our Earth).
“… poor generous Squire Mytton, doomed, as I suppose, before his birth, to the horrors of the death that seized him when he was only 38 years of age. This squire of Halston, near Shrewsbury, was born on 30...
From the greatest scientist to the most humble artisan, every brain within every...
– “You are not so smart” by David McRaney (via evilneverfeltsogood)
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...
– Lao Tzu (via cavum)
April 2012
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Man who lives round corner greeted me climbed into his 4x4 roared down the wet road I walked, struggling to keep my umbrella from blowing inside out. Not the first time.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day…
– Edith Wharton (via spycnsweet)
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