February 2012
196 posts
“Love can triumph over hate,
but only if it is familiar to one’s heart
and...”
– Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1966) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via jmbalfour)
“And that a man should walk in dignity means that he live dangerously rather than...”
– Robert Terry Weston, “I Have Come To The Parting of Ways” (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via hugafuckingteddybear)
“What more have we to give to one another than love and understanding?”
– Kenneth L. Patton, “Love and Understanding” (Unitarian Universalist, minister, poet)
“And so, if we think in boxes, we live in boxes.”
– Allan Watts (via josecabs)
“People in difficulty, namely most of us, need to know that it is all right to be...”
– Clarke Dewey Wells, The Strangeness of This Business (1975) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will...”
– Anne Lamott (via gypsyriver)
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
“If I’m lucky, the family will accept the news that, in a time when we can...”
– Craig Bowron, in Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes
When my grandmother was dying of kidney failure last November, her three children struggled with the question of when to ask for pain medication. One refused to acknowledge the signs of pain, being more concerned with...
“Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love.
If you are too careful, Love will not...”
– Rumi
OK House Blocks Effort to Reinstate DADT
timekiller-s:
From my very own e-mail box, from TEN The Equality Network:
Oklahoma House Blocks Effort to Reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Oklahoma City - February 20, 2012 - Leaders at the Oklahoma House of Representatives today took steps to block passage of HB 2195, a bill seeking to reinstate the now-defunct Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy in the Oklahoma National Guard. Introduced by...
“Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is...”
– Susan Cain in Quiet, one of 7 great books by TED 2012 speakers. (via curiositycounts)
Wanna know why I'm so happy right now?
glenyrd:
Because I’m always happy.
Do you have any idea how fucking easy it is to be happy for no reason?
It’s so easy.
You don’t even have to try.
Look at a book on your shelf that you know is full of magnificent words and smile at the power of the human brain.
Listen to a song on Pandora that you completely forgot about that gives you memories of late summer nights on a riverbed.
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