January 2012
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“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right....”
– John Berger, “Ways of Seeing” (pg 148)
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“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it...”
– Sarah Dessen (via girlwithoutwings)
December 2011
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The obligatory post to conclude the year past
Being entirely honest with myself was never going to be easy. I knew that. But I also knew that it had to be done - right from the start. At the beginning of 2011, I promised myself that it was time to let go of commitments that I was starting to get disillusioned by. And so I did. 2009 and 2010 were amazing because of all the wonderful experiences that I had and the people around me. But 2011 is...
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“I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re...”
– One Tree Hill | carp3—diem (via quote-book)
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Let us keep wondering.
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Turning Point
There haven’t been many turning points in my life, but I’d say that this safely counts as one. In fact, it’s massive. It comes with this sense of knowing and it feels amazing to know exactly where I want to be at years down the road. Of course, it can change, but knowing, for now, just feels good - pardon my inability to describe this fleeting emotion.
I’ve had my fair...
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It's December,
and I can hardly contain my excitement about 2012.
November 2011
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“You have to stop going, doing and chasing and start spending more time being...”
– Dr. Robert Holden (via davesingh)
Sounds like a plan.
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“The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Ground Will Give Way via (roscoe-)
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“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.”
– “Interview with Prof. Muhammad Yunus” Australian Broadcasting Corporation (25 March 1997)
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“It’s not democracy, it’s Digiorno.”
– Jon Stewart, on Congress’ recent decision to declare frozen pizza a vegetable in public school cafeterias (via natteringnabobs)
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“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
– William Shakespeare (via laceofpearls)
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What I've been busy with:
Picking up the pieces I’d left behind Remembering how it was like Struggling to read Struggling to write Playing the same couple of songs on repeat Searching for the confidence I once had Detesting the mediocre me Doubting myself Believing myself Embracing honesty Dreaming the dreams I once had Feeling thankful for everything and everyone around me Rediscovering the things I used...
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“Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing...”
– Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness (via underthisillusion)
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Go google 'do a barrel roll'. Now.
You know you want to.
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“‘Knowing that each of them may die at any moment,’ thought God, ‘they will not,...”
– Leo Tolstoy’s ”Work, Death and Sickness” (via thesteppenwolf)
October 2011
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pardon these
moments strung together like cheap beaded necklaces
words held together by neon-coloured velcro straps
truth peppered with dashes of lies
a mixtape of songs i never liked
and i could be making sense
like i always do.
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“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but...”
– Mark Twain (via @johannal)
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Two months later, two weeks more.
I can’t help but feel so near, yet so far away from it. It looks like it’s going to be a very, very, very long two weeks ahead.
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"When you want something, all the universe...
That line in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist keeps me believing.
Remember some time ago, when I mentioned that I will look for an organisation to volunteer with regularly, and not take on any more community service projects in the near future? Out of nowhere, an elderly day care centre is now being constructed two blocks away from my home. I think they’ve just found themselves their very...
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WatchNarayanan Krishnan, one of the Top 10 in the CNN Heroes 2010 list.
Such an inspiration.
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