January 2012
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The beauty of falling in love with someone is that you start doing it in small mouthfuls. You start breathing their scent until a part of your lungs is just suffused with them. You don’t notice, but you start picking at crowds until you see this one person. You thread more and more of your happiness on the appearance, on the existence of this other being. It is an inexplicable...
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Are you on my wavelength? →
You know how when you feel like you really connect with someone, you say you are on the same wavelength? When brain cells want to connect with each other, they synchronize their activity,” Colgin explains. “The cells literally tune into each other’s wavelength. We investigated how gamma waves in particular were involved in communication across cell groups in the hippocampus. What we found could...
Forgiveness is power
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In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via blacksilhouettes)
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
– Michel de Montaigne (via petalsquotesandthorns)
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Someone I respect a great deal once told me that ‘shyness is pride.’ What he...
– Dumb Little Man — Think Of The Audience When Speaking In Public
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texturism:
one of the things i try to do when i build software is to find a balance between making products that will naturally appeal to people, but without being exploitative of human nature. it is a challenge but i think it’s doable. i’m interested in user-generated content, community, collaboration and people’s creativity and self-expression. when you work with these kinds of things,...
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