February 2012
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“After the Earth dies, some five billion years from now, after it’s burned to a...”
– Carl Sagan (via lonelytouristcharlottecharles)
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“We have to make the best out of a bad situation”
– Rick Santorum, on why, if a person is raped, she or he should bear their rapist’s child. (via goodreasonnews)
WHAT THE FUCK! That’s the best thing you can do for a bad situation? Forcing someone to literally have a daily reminder of the fear instilled in them by a man who forcibly took...
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“People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who...”
– p88 The House on Mango Street
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“Maybe the sky didn’t look the day she fell down. Maybe God was...”
– p59 The House on Mango Street
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Reading Hurts
treesquirrrel:
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
THIS!
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The three words that everyone wants to hear
iheartchemistry:
pringles-and-picasso:
lukemerren:
Free unlimited bacon
THIS
for brian!
I am a HUGE fan of bacon! Remember that!
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lunardissonance asked: Which one are you?
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Today is my 22nd Birthday
And also Valentine’s Day.
I started off my day by waking up late to commute to UCSC from Brentwood, normally a 1 hour, 40 minute commute, and spent 3 complete hours from turning on my car at 7:00 to finally sitting in my desk on campus, in class, on time, at 10:00.
As I collected my thoughts and felt my phone vibrate all lecture with Happy Birthday texts, I started to think about my...
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6 Types of Love
raeenwahya:
Eros a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great...
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“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here.
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“After A While
After a while you learn
The subtle difference between
Holding a...”
– Veronica A. Shoffstall
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TMI Tuesday
What in life, is beautiful to you? Where do you find inspiration?
(Asked by iheartchemistry)
This question has been sitting in my box for quite some time and I suppose I have been neglecting to answer it out of laziness. However, it’s also because I feel like there’s pressure with this answer.
Real people are beautiful. I don’t mean “real” in a “I keep it real, I say what I want to say”...
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TMI Tuesday
Starting every Tuesday, since Tuesday is known as TMI Tuesday, I will either post copies of answers to questions that I retained from my old account (for the sake of them not being asked again) or questions that are asked of me by users. Right now I’m only set up to do about two posts a day, so if you ask a question and you don’t see it the following Tuesday, just wait a little...
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“Common sense is simply the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.”
– Attributed to Albert Einstein
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At some point in your life
You will be in literally the best shape of your life. Refuse to let that point be in the past.
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Don't Ever Make a Plan "B"
A “backup” plan is merely an out for not following through with what you really want.
Pick your plan. Do your plan. Don’t stop. Never quit.
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster...”
– Isaac Asimov
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“(In response to someone asking how one makes it having four kids)
Prayer. ...”
– Tanya McKenzie
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The Idea of Devoting
Something to a person who died. A lover, friend, family member.
It just struck me how unbelievably amazing and absolutely upsetting such an action is.
Amazing in how so many people could find meaning from what was dedicated to that person, to feel an incredibly touching chord from it.
But absolutely upsetting in that, no matter how many people know, if the whole world knew, the person who it...
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“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”
– Marilyn Monroe
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The Worst Feelings to Feel
Are probably those felt when realizing that something that could have been one of the best things for you was ruined by something that was completely out of your control.
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“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to...”
– Jason Read (via kateoplis)
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Are you on my wavelength? →
You know how when you feel like you really connect with someone, you say you are on the same wavelength? When brain cells want to connect with each other, they synchronize their activity,” Colgin explains. “The cells literally tune into each other’s wavelength. We investigated how gamma waves in particular were involved in communication across cell groups in the hippocampus. What we found could...
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Fragments of Fairy Tales
(A short practice in story writing)
It was a night quite like tonight. The cold had a snap to it, but the night was clear. It was a Saturday, no, a Sunday. We had just finished dinner at a Mexican restaurant on Main, our legs had been intertwined sheepishly under the table as we laughed like kids and shared tortilla chips.
We had taken to our usual drive up the hill, when we pulled off to...
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Finally Broke
200lbs on my bench press after a two month slump.
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
– Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi