December 2010
91 posts
“I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of...”
– Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith
3:41 AM
staring at the glare of the screen.
i’m losing the value in words,
it doesn’t weigh much in conversations,
so i’m switching to the currency that is silence.
“Since when is forgiveness a better quality than loyalty?”
– Roger Sterling, Mad Men
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I know where I want to be, but of course, there’s the question of getting there and the notion I won’t be welcome there.
“And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”
– Margaret Atwood
“When things don’t work out in life, that’s out of your control but you have a...”
– Anaïs Escobar
how strange it is that one can miss what he never had.
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“Which of us doesn’t do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Weight
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“… never more outside, never more than anything. Nothing bounded by...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
a bright wall in a dark room.: Christmas Week:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE?
by Chad P.
It’s easy to lose track of your life. All of us do it, in one way or another, locked up so tightly in our own heads - our own private little worlds - that we lose sight not only of The Big Picture, but of even our own smaller pictures: our families, our…
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“To believe is to suffer. It is like loving someone in the dark who never...”
– The Seventh Seal
note to self:
get better at understanding lady-speak
When your boss says, “Hope to see you again next year.” at the Christmas party,
and you wonder if she meant she hopes to have me working at the F1 again next year? or come to the same Christmas party next year?
It only goes to show how much I don’t get the ladies.
There’s some of us who get too comfortable with being alone that we hurt ourselves, and then there’s some of us who’s too afraid of being alone that we hurt other people.
It is precisely because that you were sad or thinking something sad before that you are feeling better now.
And I hope you always find or hold on to the change agent(s) that has you feeling better.
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have...”
– Roger Ebert (via psychotherapy)
“Many of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of...”
– The agony of being connected to everything in the Universe by Andrew Boyd (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Many people suffer from the fear
of finding oneself alone,
and so they don’t...”
– Rollo May, “Man’s Search for Himself”
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(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
“Knowing that you don’t know is the first and most essential step to...”
– Synecdoche, New York
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The...”
– William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Hope disappoints so that you may learn lessons from Despair
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung
“If you have lived in despair, then whatever else you have won or lost, for you...”
– Søren Kierkegaard in The Sickness Unto Death (via aversebliss)
Double Bind
(via theangrytherapist)
The double bind creates a behavior when there is confusing communication. In order for a double bind to occur, there must be:
An ongoing relationship of two or more people
One person has more power than the other
The person without power cannot escape from the relationship
Two or more contradicting or conflicting injunctions are given to the person with less power.
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