December 2010
Within everyone is the seed of creativity that can grow in any direction....
– Deepak Chopra
This year, there will be no recaps. There will be no looking back and wondering, “If only.” This year I became stronger, braver and more curious, and these traits have become an essential part of my identity. This year bad things happened, but great things negated them....
The Problem
pointofitall:
The problem starts when things become contrived. When you won’t let things be and try to categorize everything, when you try to narrow it down to its lowest form and lose the beauty of the complexity. When you don’t empathize, when you think you know best and judge what you don’t know. When you approach people, situations, and life overall with a narrow mindset and fail to truly...
Forever looking forward.
Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna...
– Clementine, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Success is related to standing out, not fitting in.
– Don Draper (via pointofitall)
Oi.
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In the end, it comes down to intellectual or mental compatibility.
During this semester studying Sociology, we learnt about Exogamy, which is “the practice of marrying outside one’s own social group or category”. When it comes to love, there is no fixed definition. It’s meaning changes from circumstance to circumstance; from person to person. But there is always a...
“Make a wish,” he tells her, about to kiss her.
“It already...
– Real Men Can’t Hold a Match to Jake Ryan of ‘Sixteen Candles’ , Washington Post
Read the rest here.
But I mean, you can choose change — you can choose to grow — at any moment of...
– : new things, new things, new things.
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I don’t care what you do in your home, but the idea of a vegetarian traveler in...
– Anthony Bourdain’s take on Vegetarians, “Medium Raw - A Bloody Valentine To The World Of Food And The People Who Cook.”
The pleasures of reading for pleasure.
Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde
I’m a little taken aback by anyone calling himself an artist because of my...
– Charles Eames
Small Steps
despiteitall:
“If you want to work on your art, work on your life. All those personality traits that aren’t working for you will come back to haunt you in your career (i.e. assertiveness, fear of conflict, fear of confrontation.) It’s all connected.”
- Keri Smith (blog)
Fear of conflict? Check.
Fear of confrontation? Check.
(Lack of) Assertiveness? Check
Personality affects everything....
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another...
– Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind