February 2012
155 posts
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are all receivers. The cosmos speak through us.”
– Jason Silva
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
“Anoche me soñé con vos, sí con vos.”
“[We fall silent in midsentence,
all smiles, past help.]
Our humans
don’t know...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “An Unexpected Meeting” (translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde
expectations: I'm just going to take a quick power nap and I'll wake up refreshed and energized
reality: passed out cold for five hours solid, wake up not knowing what day it is or what the last meal you ate was
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if...”
– Kevin Brockmeier
“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I...”
– Stephan Grellet
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the...”
– Marcel Proust
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
“To be understood is to prostitute yourself.”
– Fernando Pessoa
