December 2010
70 posts
Goodbye luscious 2010, hello 2011!
I’ll be honest: I usually never celebrate the arrival of the new year. I have always been one to use the motto “the past is the past” leaving behind everything that the new day accomplishes. Yet, 2010 has been one of the most crucial years of my life.
I got into a university! Going to a university that provides you with countless opportunity is the place one should go to. I...
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (via kellyesque)
Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have... →
The Singularity is more than just hypothetic milestone in history. It’s also a peculiar movement today. Along with spaceflight tycoon Peter Diamandis, Kurzweil has launched Singularity University, which brought in its first batch of students in the summer of 2009. Kurzweil is also director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which held its first annual summit in 2006. The...
Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an...
weusedtoloveus:
Clare Abshire-DeTamble, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” by Audrey Niffenegger
“And when I was young I didn’t understand, but now, I know, how absence can be...”
– Henry DeTamble, The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (via bethiargh)
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“Don’t be afraid to let go of an old dream so you can invent a new one.”
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love...”
– Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
(via wickedfine)
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I'm scared I don't have it in me anymore
Magazines splatter across the floor. Ink stains consume my fingers as if they are attached to my skin, permanently revealing to the world that I am a writer whose clumsy and a bit compulsive. Tireless nights have made my eyes swollen. I’m ravenous. My lips are chapped, the blood drips on the faces of models and cut outs. I have to keep going to feed this addiction, to fuel my passion. And...
Winona Forever →
Winona Ryder has this problem, and as problems go it’s pretty solidly in the first-world category, she knows, but it’s a problem, still: She’ll be having a conversation with somebody—an interesting conversation, the kind two regular people have when they discover a mutual admiration for, like, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral or something. And then suddenly the person she’s having the...
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via kevinlongrie)
I love this. Thank you. <3
musicforyourcoffee:
New Order – Ceremony
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