Better Angels

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"I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things..."

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“I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:19:14 -0400

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. —Dead Poets Society

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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:44:16 -0400

““Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” -John Muir”

"I love the smell of the universe in the morning."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:17:40 -0400

“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via natashakills)

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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 03:43:30 -0400

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

- Margaret Atwood

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Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:11:13 -0500

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness,..."

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:13:58 -0500

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth in ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

- ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Weighing the Dog It is awkward for me and bewildering for himas I hold him in my arms in the small...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:41:53 -0500

Weighing the Dog

It is awkward for me and bewildering for him
as I hold him in my arms in the small bathroom,
balancing our weight on the shaky blue scale,

but this is the way to weigh a dog and easier
than training him to sit obediently on one spot
with his tongue out, waiting for the cookie.

With pencil and paper I subtract my weight
from our total to find out the remainder that is his,
and I start to wonder if there is an analogy here.

It could not have to do with my leaving you
though I never figured out what you amounted to
until I subtracted myself from our combination.

You held me in your arms more than I held you
through all those awkward and bewildering months
and now we are both lost in strange and distant neighborhoods.

Billy Collins