January 2011
“We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than...”
– Bill Watterson in his Kenyon College Commencement Address (via calvinnhobbes)
Who's going to be single on the 14th of February?
The pain you're feeling is directly proportional...
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular...
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“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with...”
– What is the What by Dave Eggers (via thechocolatebrigade)
“But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking,...”
– Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book) (via i-am-committing-social-suicide)
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a...”
– Anaïs Nin (via biancaarenee)
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know....”
– Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles (via sherlocksviolin)
