October 2012
2 posts
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give...
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in...
April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
1 post
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil
December 2011
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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These days I have been thinking of these verses…
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the father of the heavenly lights,
who does not change like shifting shadows.
Phillipians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For...
August 2011
9 posts
July 2011
3 posts
“In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love, because, as the...”
– Stephen Colbert (via theangrytherapist)
I really enjoyed this article by Jonathan Frazen
A COUPLE of weeks ago, I replaced my three-year-old BlackBerry Pearl with a much more powerful BlackBerry Bold. Needless to say, I was impressed with how far the technology had advanced in three years. Even when I didn’t have anybody to call or text or e-mail, I wanted to keep fondling my new Bold and experiencing the marvelous clarity of its...
June 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
December 2010
37 posts
Life is an echo
What you send out - comes back. What you sow - you reap. What you give - you get. What you see in others - exists in you.
Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape...
“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron
“When you feel like you love someone more than he loves you, it can make you a...”
– Grey’s Anatomy
“If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian,...”
– Margaret Cho 