January 2010
77 posts
“Researchers at Oxford University hypothesized that playing Tetris after...”
– TONI
Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About - David Disalvo - Brainspin - True/Slant (via pianississimo) (via fuckyeahpsychology)
(via heather-darling)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday...”
– Jane Austen (via inspiri)
“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”
– Patti Smith (via projectdarkstar) (via quote-book)
The Ruse of the Creative Class →
“Doing some uncomplicated and monotonous work ought to give you some time to...”
– Nora Roberts (via quote-book)
“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Believing you can be smarter can actually make you...
ohyeahfacts:
SCIENCE!
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Five Laws of Human Nature →
“Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson | Submitted by: Lynn Nguyen (via quote-book)
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill (via bitchville)
Sonnet II-- Pablo Neruda
Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss, What loneliness-in-motion, toward your company! Rolling with the rain we follow the tracks alone. In Taltal there is neither daybreak nor spring. But you and I, love, we are together from our clothes down to our roots: together in the autumn, in water, in hips, until we can be alone together—-only you, only me. To think of the effort, that the...
“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose...”
– Bukowski (via quote-book)
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
"Unhappy Hour" by Richard Siken
aliszoob:
Going to a party where I knew you’d be, dudes bobbing for boyfriends, eyes shining like candy apples. I want to be a lamppost, or the history of plumbing. I am tired of being mysterious. You are drinking rum next to the laughing skullheads and I am unhappy because I am dead and I miss you. Once a year, day of the dead, you think you’d think of me more often. These people shoulda...
“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any...”
– Pi Patel, Life of Pi (via quote-book)