March 2009
4 posts
“Maybe that’s just growing up. When you’re young, you tell yourself things like...”
– Adam Duritz
“This is the thing about life I’ve never really understood until now: we try so...”
– Teach Me
“Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts...”
– Hope Floats
February 2009
159 posts
Yesterday, I read a passage in Finding Iris Chang about a war veteran who survived the Death March of Bataan. He was captured by the Imperial Japanese Army in Bataan and consequently endured torture of the most inhumane form. It sounds trivial amongst all the other horrors of the modern world but it is hard to express in words the torture. He was at one point tied naked inside a cage and endured...
“Life doesn’t turn out as we expect it to. When we come out into the world, our...”
“One good thing about music; when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems...”
– unknown
oohaha
We’re just afraid, period. Our fear is free floating. We’re afraid this isn’t the right relationship or we’re afraid it is. We’re afraid they won’t like us or afraid they will. We’re afraid of failure or we’re afraid of success. We’re afraid of dying young or we’re afraid of growing old. We’re more afraid of life than we are death.
- Marianne Williamson
It makes me think that people believe...
protectionism
“Dear America, please remember how you got to be the wealthiest country in history. It wasn’t through protectionism, or state-owned banks or fearing free trade. The formula was very simple: build this flexible, open economy, tolerate creative destruction so dead capital is quickly redeployed to better ideas and companies, pour into it the most diverse, smart and energetic immigrants from every...
“Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it...”
– Half Nelson
“It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this...”
– Garden State
sushi by kyle-andrews
