January 2011
25 posts
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“Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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today
the sun came out. i drew a chair by the window and read by the sunlight and looked out at the people on the street.
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“If it’s a clear night, we can see millions, even billions of years back...”
– Sophie’s World
“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from...”
– Sophie’s World
“Sartre said that man’s existence takes priority over whatever he might...”
– Sophie’s World
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I had been spending so much time focused on the...
Faraday: Whatever happened, happened. All right? But then I finally realized… I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables. Do you know what the variables in these equations are, Jack? Jack Shepherd: No. Faraday: Us. We’re the variables. People. We think. We reason. We make choices. We have free will. We can change our destiny.
—Lost 5.14
derekliu:
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you...