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23. a college kid. a bookworm. a lover of words. shy. half awkward, half awesome. an insomniac. often perceived as innocent. addicted to the internet. a casual gamer. a world traveler. a huge fan of laser tag and treehouses and pillow fights and scavenger hunts and bubble wrap.
23. a college kid. a bookworm. a lover of words. shy. half awkward, half awesome. an insomniac. often perceived as innocent. addicted to the internet. a casual gamer. a world traveler. a huge fan of laser tag and treehouses and pillow fights and scavenger hunts and bubble wrap.
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I must go here.
And a video to show how AMAZING it is. The woman’s voice is boring, but trust me, watch it. If you don’t want to go there… then, uh, you have no sense of fun.
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"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Marcus Aurelius
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"You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge."
Bulgarian proverb
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"The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears."
Dean Koontz, Relentless
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from “Sweet Darkness” by David Whyte
You must learn one thing:
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you. -
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
André Dubus
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Don’t Expect Applause - Ellen Bass
And yet, wouldn’t it be welcome
at the end of each ordinary day?
The audience could be small,
the theater modest. Folding chairs
in a church basement would do.
Just a short earnest burst of applause
that you got up that morning
and, one way or the other,
made it through the day.
You soaped up in the steaming
shower, drank your Starbucks
in the car, and let the guy with the
Windex wipe your windshield
during the long red light at Broad Street.
Or maybe you were that guy,
not daring to light up
while you stood there because
everyone’s so down on smoke these days.
Or you kissed your wife
as she hurried out the door, even though
you were pretty sure she was
meeting her lover at the Flamingo Motel,
even though you wanted to grab her
by a hank of her sleek hair.
Maybe your son’s in jail.
Your daughter’s stopped eating.
And your husband’s still dead
this morning, just like he was
yesterday and the day before that.
And yet you put on your shoes
and takee a walk, and when a neighbor
says Good morning, you say
Good morning back.
Would a round of applause be amiss?
Even if you weren’t good.
If you yelled at your kid,
poisoned the ants, drank too much
and said that really stupid thing
you promised yourself you wouldn’t say.
Even if you don’t deserve it.. -
PORTRAIT-DEX
So I did one of them fancy Portrait-Dex thingies. I have no idea if it’ll get added to that site but I thought you might like to see it anyhow.
(Source: jephjacques)
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