February 2012
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Obama Sends Apology as Afghan Koran Protests Rage →
Protesters took to the streets in at least eight provinces on Thursday, as the Taliban called on people to take up arms against foreign and Afghan troops.
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
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nprfreshair:
From the Archives: Dr. John on...
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“If you never, ever talk to people, and you meet all of your needs on the...”
– Author ANN PATCHETT, on the importance of bookstores in the days of Amazon.com — and perhaps of getting off the Internet in general — on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
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“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C. S. Lewis. (via thechronicidealist)
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change...”
– Viktor E. Frankl
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise.
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As much as I love him... Sometimes my soldier...
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via aquaticuss)
Do I have 100 people or 1000 people on my wedding guest list? Those are the only options.
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“The road to happiness does not end with a ring on your finger. Glass slippers...”
– Words that encouraged me this morning. Found in the February edition of Underwired an essay (finding my own glass slipper) by Christy H. Williams (via ignitelight)
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I hate it when I don't have enough space on my...
its-all-too-cliche:
And by hate, I mean love.
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“I promise to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness, and to have...”
– (via pinkypromisebae)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
– Sylvia Plath (via outcamethesun)
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the...”
– Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic (via fuckyeahcajuns)
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This Kind Of Life →
thekimenator:
“Like many others I know of my generation, I was raised by parents who encouraged me to think that I had all the choices in the world, and all the time in the world to make them. We spent years being told that we could do anything, be anything – even our liberal arts curriculums let us play around in various fields for years before choosing a major, if we ever had to at all.
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How Your iPhone is Affecting Your Friendship →
As I checked my email this morning while walking down the street, I had a moment in which I lifted my head to realize that I couldn’t tell you one thing that had happened along that block. What interactions had I missed by being more engrossed in my wireless world than my physical surroundings?
