February 2012
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
– Jack Kerouac (via beyondstyx)
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“Like other IPs, INTPs are slow to disclose the contents of their inner world. As strange as it may seem to other types, INTPs tend to conceal some of their most dominant personality features, namely, their highly cerebral, rational side. In fact, it may only be a select few who are granted full access to this side of the INTP. Others may only encounter INTPs’ inner world through encounters...
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Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more...
– Ram Dass (via lazyyogi)
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‘Sam!’ cried Frodo, feeling that amazement could go no further, and quite unable...
– The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (via allshallfade)
You cannot judge the quality of another’s friendship by superficial appearances,...
– Wisdom for Modern Life (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
– Margaret Mead (via strangeandbittercrop)
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For me, inferior Fe makes me very conscious of other people’s needs, but very...
– Dynamic Equilibrium, an INTP (via thelithiumcat) YES. Ah, we have to laugh at our unpunctually eruptive Fe’s…
He who thinks that happiness lies only in gratifying the emotions will surely...
– Xunzi, A Discussion of Rites (via elige)
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Introverts are not driven to seek big hits of positive emotional...
– Revenge of the Introvert
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One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by...
– Vincent Van Gogh (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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Nothin’s what it seems, drow. Nothin’! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know?...
– Bruenor Battlehammer to Drizzt Do’Urden (via randomoligy)
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The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech,
but...
– Samyutta Nikaya I, 163
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People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to...
– Abraham Hicks (via elige)
The rapture of oneness comes from reclaiming parts of yourself in another.
– Almine (via lucifelle)
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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a...
– W. Beran Wolfe (via galileogst)
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When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried:...
– Stephen Crane
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of...
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via stars-and-stories)
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Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature
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Stay, nymph, I pray! I am not an enemy who pursues you. A lamb runs like this...
– Apollo to Daphne - Ovid’s Metamorphoses (via pantaponrose)
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Isaac Asimov on Libraries
In 1971, the Troy Public Library opened. To mark the occasion, children’s librarian Marguerite Hart wrote a lot of famous public figures of the time, asking them to write letters to the children of Troy about books and the importance of libraries. Among the 97 respondents was Isaac Asimov:
What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...
– Egyptian Book of the Dead (via elige)
تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.
– Arabic Proverb (via elige)
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"Child in Red" by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes she walks through the village in her little red dress all absorbed in restraining herself, and yet, despite herself, she seems to move according to the rhythm of her life to come. She runs a bit, hesitates, stops, half-turns around… and, all while dreaming, shakes her head for or against. Then she dances a few steps that she invents and forgets, no doubt finding out that life moves on...
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What if...?
The Doctor: You know, it's bigger on-
Sherlock: It's dimensionally transcendental. Obviously it's bigger on the inside. It's a Type 40 Time And Relative Dimensions In Space TARDIS. Approximately 900 years old. Its chameleon circuit became dysfunctional sometime in the 60's, which explains it's obsolete police phone box disguise, and you haven't gotten around to fixing it. The way you hold yourself and the goofy smile on your face signifies that you're clearly trying to cover up your dark past, and considering the fact that you have two hearts, which is made obvious by the double pulse coming through your carotid, you're a time lord. The last of the time lords. Am I wrong?
The Doctor: How did you kn-
Sherlock: I don't know. I notice.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its...
– Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy (via philphys)