July 2012
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everybody wants a good friend, but nobody wants to be one.
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You know what's kind of beautiful?
In French, you don’t really say “I miss you.”
You say “tu me manques,” which is closer to “you are missing from me.”
I love that. “You are missing from me.”
You are a part of me, you are essential to my being. You are like a limb, or an organ, or blood. I cannot function without you.
“before you act, listen.
before you react, think.
before you spend, earn.
before you criticize, wait.
before you pray, forgive.
before you quit, try.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
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“To be an artist, you must immerse yourself with great passion in all that...”
– Notations 21 – 165 musicians and composers around the world reinvent music notation in celebration of John Cage. (via explore-blog)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ruineshumaines)
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imagine an entire room and it’s all bed
no floor, just bed
you roll too far to one side? don’t worry, bed’s still there
all is bed
“Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry...”
– In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson... 