"When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps."
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John Lennon (via david)
I really needed this today.
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Top five regrets of the dying
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
دیگران را ببخش، نه به خاطر اینکه لایق بخششند، به خاطر اینکه تو لایق آرامشی
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
"Downloading music is the same thing I used to do: I used to record all the songs in tapes, the hits, the songs I liked from the radio. I don’t care. I hate seeing all those big rock stars complaining. At least they’re paying attention to your music, moron, and they’re paying attention to you, you know? You should appreciate that, fuck. Why are you complaining? You have 5 fucking big houses, so shut up."
- Liam Gallagher (via catredshoes)
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What I lose by not listening is much greater than what I lose by listening to bad advice. Because I think I can sort of sort through with my gut what is useful and what is not useful. Whereas if I hear nothing, I know vividly what results. I am never going to let that happen again.
I think people feel somehow that they can be hurt by hearing the wrong thing. I am not convinced that is true. We might get our feelings hurt, but I don’t think there is any actual damage done. What’s bad falls away.
One thing I often say to students is, “I am not interested in hearing solutions.” If people give me solutions that are cockamamie, which they often will, forget that! But take a step back and look at the problem they are identifying with that solution. That is useful to know.
"- Jennifer Egan on taking advice. (via unicornology)
James Murphy on Failure
In case you missed any of our Food Rules videos with Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman, you can find them all below. Above: Rule #39: Don’t Eat Breakfast Cereals That Change the Color of the Milk
Rule #6: Avoid Food Products That Contain More than Five Ingredients
Rule #13: Shop the Peripheries of the Supermarket and Stay Out of the Middle
Rule #17: Buy Your Snacks at the Farmers’ Market
Rule #39: Don’t Eat Breakfast Cereals That Change the Color of the Milk
Rule #45: Eat All the Junk Food You Want as Long as You Cook It Yourself
Rule #57: If You’re Not Hungry Enough to Eat an Apple, Then You’re Probably Not Hungry
Rule #73: Do All Your Eating at a Table
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”Time is something that feels very human; it regulates our days and it’s relentless and unavoidable passing drives our lives forward. It is why each of us has a beginning and an end.” -Wonders of The Universe - Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen
"Curation is one of the big changes in blog characteristics that I’ve noticed in the past few years. People don’t blog in the way that they blogged in 2006 anymore. They mainly post links to stuff now and annotate. So now there’s this phenomenon, this idea, that you are what you link to. But the type of self-expression that’s been happening on the Web is not actually anyone’s experience as a human; it’s just decorations without any true expression of life experience."
- Jonathan Harris, quoted on design mind (via somethingchanged)
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I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t get better, you get better.
- Joan Rivers to Louie C.K. on Louie, episode 204: Joan
Louie is such a genius writer & gifted director. This scene is humorous, but also profound. You can see just in the set-up how much C.K. respects & adores Rivers & everything she says is a truth that must be committed to memory. This line in particular says succinctly what we all need to hear: in order to improve your life you must work on yourself, challenge yourself, be kind, work hard, don’t allow yourself to become immersed in whatever shitty setbacks you’ve been delivered, celebrate all the gifts you’re given & make the best out of every opportunity. It doesn’t matter how much better or worse it gets, you cannot be promised a better life, all you can do is promise yourself that you won’t stagnate. The world is constantly going to deliver you strikes & gutters: improve yourself & in doing that, you make the portion of the world that you inhabit a better place for yourself & everyone you encounter.
TED Talk — Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …
Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old?
I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young.
Alain de Botton’s kinder, gentler philosophy of successA snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.
I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It’s not the material goods we want. It’s the rewards we want. And that’s a new way of looking at luxury goods. The next time you see somebody driving a Ferrari don’t think, “This is somebody who is greedy.” Think, “This is somebody who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love.”
