April 2009
33 posts
“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”
– Shantideva - via Twitter / Tiny Buddha
“A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it’s...”
– Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders
Cloud Cult - Thanks
“And I give thanks to...
“Now comes the reckoning: the part where I realistically, rationally, and...”
– Clublife: Steps
“Or I could stop listening to others and absorbing the self-pity of people...”
– opinionistas.com » Blog Archive » 30 Years and a Shoe Up the Ass
“… I can now say with confidence that we know what love is. It’s...”
– Psychology Today: Hold Me Tight
“In the simplest terms, the meaning of life is a healthy mind in a healthy body,...”
– Sense And Goodness Without God, Richard Carrier, p161
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche & Pema Chodron: The... →
(via drawohara)
“Forgive your spouse and forgive yourself,” the Happiness in Love poster...”
– Modern Love - Finding Forgiveness in a Ziploc - NYTimes.com
via Twitter / Sugarmags
“Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling...”
– You are being lied to about pirates | San Francisco Bay View
Watch“Around Cape Horn,” via Metafilter, filmed in 1929 and narrated by Irving Johnson. A stupendous badass.
“… we could hand our enemies no greater victory than to come to look like...”
– Ginsburg Shares Views on Influence of Foreign Law on Her Court, and Vice Versa - NYTimes.com
via Twitter / Sugarmags
“…all that is necessary to develop a morality which encompasses not only...”
– Cooperation and Morality without God | Enfranchised Mind
“Skip all that. Instead, open the talk with your Twitter username, and be like,...”
– Giles Bowkett: How To Take Questions At A Tech Conference
“contrary to popular opinion, avoiding hardship is the express lane to misery....”
– Twitter / Amy Hoy
“In actual fact, unless you’re serving in a war zone, the most dangerous person...”
– John Goekler: The Most Dangerous Person in the World?
“…and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is...”
– Pharyngula: The amorality of the faithful
Art Criticism and Values
“Consider, for now, that the nature of “artistic criticism” is not to say what we should think, but to point out the features of something that an individual finds attractive or ugly, so that others who perhaps missed them can notice those details as well and make a more informed decision about whether it is attractive or ugly to them.
“Often there is a consensus of...
Urban Species - Blanket (Feat. Imogen Heap)
“I see how a good life can be a series of recoveries from episodes of...”
– Twitter / Daniel Hoherd
“to only be compelled by dissatisfaction can be wearying. i think nothing’s wrong...”
– Twitter / why the lucky stiff