December 2009
116 posts
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...”
– Marcus Aurelius (from Wildmind) (via honeyhands) (via iwantyoursoul) (via samcrowe)
On "Variety Amnesia" →
psychotherapy:
…Researchers reporting in the Journal of Consumer Research think the trick is overcoming “variety amnesia”— our tendency to forget that we’ve been exposed to a variety of great things, be they people, food, music, movies, home furnishings or other—and instead focus our attention on the singular thing that no longer gives us the tingles. To shake ourselves free from this negative...
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– ~C.S. Lewis
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein (via einnagoesrawr)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Nelson Mandela (via petalsonthesea) (via littlelies) (via beautifail)
Quadruplets get accepted into Yale's upcoming...
-e:
NY Times:
Ray Crouch, a senior at Danbury High School, logged onto the computer in his family’s living room just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday and entered the Web site of the Yale admissions office.Suddenly the screen turned blue — Yale blue — and an image of a bulldog, the university mascot, appeared, followed by “Welcome to the Class of 2014.” Ray, 18, had been offered a spot in the next...
