January 2011
18 posts
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...”
– George Sand (via kari-shma)
Onto 2011
This year I bit off more than I could chew, and I swallowed it anyways. It wasn’t easy to take in, and it was hard to digest, but I did it. I’ve found that going with the flow doesn’t necessarily mean taking the path of least resistance, but learning to take in the obstacles as part of my ongoing life experience and looking for the opportunity to grow.
I’ve just begun...
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer...”
– Dr. Seuss (via life-or-somethinglikeit)
December 2010
34 posts
“Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via towardtheone)
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman (via goingquietlymad)
“Patterns establish reality, so break all patterns. Do it one way today, and...”
– Alexander Shulgin (TiHKAL: 334-335)
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via ageofreason)
“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In...”
– Alan Watts (via alanwatts)
Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’ →
A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court last week.
Jurors – well, potential jurors – staged a revolt.
They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana. Never mind that the defendant in question also faced a felony charge of criminal distribution of...
“Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ (via zeb)
“a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. “Do you wish to buy any baskets?” he asked.
“No, we do not want any,” was the reply.
“What!” exclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?”
Having seen his industrious white neighbors so well off—that the lawyer had only to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth...
“Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to...”
– Calvin and Hobbes (via citygirlwonder)
“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”
– Carl G. Jung (via heartmindspirit)
“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything...”
– Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)
“Find something that moves you.”
– Zen Habits (via onminimalism)
“Life isn’t a dress rehearsal. We don’t get any do-overs. You’ve got to make the...”
– Camryn Manheim (via metheliving)
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: Who... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Hospitals had the American Hospital Association. Doctors had the American Medical Association. Big Pharma had the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. More than 1,750 companies and organizations hired about 4,525 lobbyists — eight for each member of Congress — to influence…
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is...”
– Goethe (via texturism)
“The goal of any surgery is total recovery - to come out better than you were...”
– Meredith Grey (via danikka)
