February 2012
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“Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go...”
– Babe - 1995 (via falloutof)
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“Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.”
– (via dreamonforeternity)
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“Impatience never commanded success.”
– Edwin H. Chapin (via kari-shma)
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“It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly...”
– Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (via psychotherapy)
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“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people...”
– President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29 April 1938 (via demons)
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εïз: Interviewer: In your new novel, Pale Fire,... →
cheriepea:
Interviewer: In your new novel, Pale Fire, one of the characters says that reality is neither the subject nor the object of real art, which creates its own reality. What is that reality? Nabokov:Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. If we take a lily, for instance, or any other kind of...
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“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of...”
– Tim Burton (via narcoticalupus)
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Why We Hide Emotional Pain (Leon F. Seltzer,... →
psychotherapy:
Excerpt (via Psychology Today):
“Not to show vulnerability is typically viewed as a strength, a “demonstration” of character. But in reality the major motives in hiding our emotions are (as I’ve already indicated) fear-based. We’re just afraid to look weak or susceptible to others. Paradoxically, though, unashamedly disclosing our vulnerability can actually be a deliberate...
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“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start...”
– Mary Pickford (via kari-shma)
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“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that...”
– Albert Einstein (via nathanielstuart)
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“Do what is right because it is right, and leave it alone.”
– Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Consul to Lithuania in World War II
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