January 2012
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“A rock in our path. To hurl ourselves upon this rock as though after a certain...”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (timeimmemorial)
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Anonymous asked: The pictures and the qoutes are amazing. I've enjoyed looking at what you've put together. Thank you ~ Wanda
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“I love books; I read and write them for the same reason I love to talk with a...”
– ~ Pico Iyer Los Angeles Times
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Movement is the natural state of man.
It is commonly believed that with aging comes an inevitable decline from vitality to frailty. This includes feeling weak and often the loss of independence. These declines may have more to do with lifestyle choices, including sedentary living and poor nutrition, than the absolute potential of musculoskeletal aging. In this study, we sought to eliminate the confounding variables of sedentary...
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“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso
Truth is revealed in bed.
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Two of Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of "Good...
Aesthetic & Unobtrusive - the rest will be taken care of.
~ü
Good design:
Is aesthetic - The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
Is unobtrusive - Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor...
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength To Love, 1963
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“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. in an address given in Birmingham, Alabama on December 31, 1963
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"I love the stuff you never see."
An insightful confession made by Teller of Penn & Teller when discussing the lengthy development process of a new magic trick. Eugene Wallingford, who made me aware of this quote, ruminates on it in his excellent blog Knowing and Doing. An excerpt:
In many ways, I think that Teller’s simple declaration is a much better predictor of what you will enjoy in a career or avocation than...
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Pico Iyer Protests 21st Century Media Using the...
Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so many-chambered and lavish and abundant in tones and suggestions, that has so much room for near-contradiction and ambiguity and those places in memory or imagination that can’t be simplified, or put into easy words, that it allows the reader to keep many things in her head and heart at the same time, and to descend, as...
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you hear silence speak
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary...
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“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of...”
– Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death, Eloquently expanded upon by Mills Baker here.
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“Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.”
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“He wrote with such economy the words held no meaning.”
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“Our memories can be very unreliable. We like to think of them as indelible...”
– ~ Gina, played by Dianne Wiest on In Treatment
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep...
