May 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
5 posts
February; the month we are all reminded by the world that love is in the air… I shall choose to think about love in a different way. The kind of love that matters more than just romantic love.
With adaptation of the MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA by Paulo Coehlo
“All you need is love ~ All you need is love~ All you need is love, love…. Love is all you need~”
More than anything we need in life, we need love. And I’m thankful that I have God’s love because if there is anything that have kept me alive till today, it is God’s love. Or at the very least, the knowledge of His love. If it wasn’t for His Love, who knows where I would have been today?
Then, we need to love. It feels amazing to be able to show love but it’s damn tiring to do that without any reciprocation. But that’s not the point about love, is it? I’m still learning to love without expecting anything in return; to love because you want others to feel loved, because you know that feeling of being loved is life-sustaining.
“Even when it leads us to the land where the lakes are made of tears, to that secret, mysterious place, the land of tears!
Tears speak for themselves. And when we feel that we have cried all we needed to cry, they still continue to flow.
But when we believe that our life is destined to be a long walk through the Vale of Sorrows, the tears suddenly vanish.
Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realised that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.
They simply left, and with every farewell comes a hidden hope.”
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
For God is love. That is why I must love. So help me to show love even when it is humanly impossible to, help me to show love even when all I want to is to think about myself.
Help me to love. Help me to receive love.
:)
January 2013
2 posts
Do not be afraid to want a lot.
Things take a long time; practice patience.
Avoid compulsively making things worse.
Finish what you start.
Often people start out by thinking about all the things that they can’t do. Once you take that path, it’s very hard to get off of it. Shoot high and shoot often.
” —
Complement with Neil Gaiman’s advice on the creative life and treat yourself to Millman’s sublime Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design.
(via explore-blog)
I discovered these common, self imposed restrictions are rather insidious, though they start out simple enough. We begin by worrying we aren’t good enough, smart enough or talented enough to get what we want, then we voluntarily live in this paralyzing mental framework, rather than confront our own role in this paralysis. Just the possibility of failing turns into a dutiful self-fulfilling prophecy. We begin to believe that these personal restrictions are, in fact, the fixed limitations of the world. We go on to live our lives, all the while wondering what we can change and how we can change it, and we calculate and re-calculate when we will be ready to do the thing s we want to do. And we dream. If only. If only. One day. Some day.
Every once in a while — often when we least expect it — we encounter someone more courageous, someone who choose to strive for that which (to us) seemed unrealistically unattainable, even elusive. And we marvel. We swoon. We gape. Often , we are in awe. I think we look at these people as lucky, when in fact, luck has nothing to do with it. It is really about the strength of their imagination; it is about how they constructed the possibilities for their Life. In short, unlike me, they didn’t determine what was impossible before it was even possible.
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If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.
Debbie Millman in Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design
Song: “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” by Talking Heads
December 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
15 posts
- me: ugh why am i so lonely
- friend: hey do u wanna go out tonight
- me: no
April 2012
34 posts
I’m not sure what the word means to me.
I don’t spend as much effort as I should, on my “friends”.
Aside from the couple that I consider my closest friends, the rest I tend to lose touch with. It is not intentional, in fact, far from it. I just get sucked into my antisocial tendencies.
I didn’t…
