March 2009
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i’ve been looking for something,
searching...
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“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via thresca) (via quote-book)
I want to be that girl.
lovebot:
breathsoftruth: jaimec: hit-or-miss: enamour: canyouhearmenoww:
You know that girl who all the guys like, but they’re too scared to say it because she’s so great? Yeah, I want to be her. She’s not popular because she’s slutty or rude or because she’s drop-dead gorgeous. People like her because she’s one of those people you just like being around. She talks to everyone and tries...
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“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
– Lawrence Durrell (via brokenmachine)
this is why i'm glad i discovered tumblr
wekeepsaying:
you know those pictures that float around tumblr, being re-blogged again and again, those ones that everybody seems to connect with or get something from? the person who found those pictures to post onto their tumblr first may have spent a while searching for that picture. maybe not that particular one, but they were looking for something to convey their mood, their feelings at...
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“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
– Rollo May (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Berthold Auerbach (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
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Yalom essay, continued
psychotherapy:
…One of my favorite tales of healing, found in Hermann Hesse’s Magister Ludi, involves Joseph and Dion, two renowned healers, who lived in biblical times. Though both were highly effective, they worked in different ways. The younger healer, Joseph, healed through quiet, inspired listening. Pilgrims trusted Joseph. Suffering and anxiety poured into his ears vanished like water on...
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Watchpeople love you the most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things that you cannot keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you you’re getting what you deserve
this too shall be made right
children cannot learn when children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells
whose waters quench all the fires of Hell...
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When perfectionism becomes a problem →
psychotherapy:
“Perfectionism is a phobia of mistake-making,” said Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, which is based in Boston. “It is the feeling that ‘If I make a mistake, it will be catastrophic.’ “
Striving for perfection is fine, said Smith College psychology professor Randy Frost, a leading researcher on perfectionism. The issue is how you interpret...
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
– Kurt Cobain (via eons) (via julie911) (via jessicachu) (via quote-book)
Watchzack arias
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What is graphic design?
Graphic design is the most ubiquitous of all the arts. It responds to needs at once personal and public, embraces concerns both economic and ergonomic, and is informed by many disciplines, including art and architecture, philosophy and ethics, literature and language, science and politics and performance.
Graphic design is everywhere, touching everything we do, everything we see, everything we...
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“Depression, like love, trades in clichés, and it is difficult to speak of it...”
– Andrew Solomonk
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“I lie awake, lonely as a solitary bird on the roof”
– psalm 102.7
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“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure,...”
– Buddha (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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