December 2011
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"pure excitement" -- a friend's take on ron paul →
devonlynn:
“when people believe they can vote a dollar away from their neighbor it will be the end of democracy.”
After a brief skim:
1) It does matter if he’s racist. It’s not about a politician being perfect, it’s about a person who respects and values all human beings. How in the hell can you support someone who doesn’t even do that?
2) Ron Paul is principled in...
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“A Man needs to feel the rhythms of the earth; he needs to have in hand something...”
– John Elderedge (via theohpioneer)
this time last year...
I remember thinking that you were too good to be true.
I guess I was right.
problem of an INFJ:
woocie:
everyone feels close to you, confides in you, trusts you, and feels comfortable around you, yet you feel close to no one.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson (via anditslove)
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“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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cuteawesome1:
Epic fail cat = AWESOME
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“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person....”
– “And in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I fancy you.” (Now I know what Eddie Izzard was talking about.)
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“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to...”
– Vaclav Havel
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“Genuine politics — even politics worthy of the name — the only...”
– Vaclav Havel
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful...”
– Vaclav Havel
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...”
– Václav Havel
Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011)
(via amiquote)
You Scored as Cognitive Empath: You possess an awareness of the need to imaginatively put yourself in the place of others in order to genuinely understand them, which requires the consciousness of your egocentric tendency to identify truth with your immediate perceptions of long-standing thought or belief. This kind of Empathy allows someone insight into the inner emotional world of other ...
“And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom...”
– Clarice Lispector (via misswallflower)
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly,...”
– Henry Miller (via sunflower-soul)
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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the...”
– -Black Elk
Contemplating this one a lot as of late.
“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of...”
– Dalai Lama XIV
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“Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever...”
– excerpt from the Desiderata
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“What’s religion other than a little guidance, a little bit of peace of mind?...”
– Conor Oberst (via oberstcult)
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“We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via sunflower-soul)
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freedom.
I was trying to fall asleep last night and all I could think about was how all of the freedom I have gives me such terrible anxiety. I wished that someone would just make decisions about my future for me. Then I felt guilty, because so many people are trapped in families or cultures or countries that prevent them from even the most basic freedoms, and sometimes they risk their lives fighting for...
life story.
devonlynn:
in the dating world, for example, INFJs tend to fall into one of two categories: reclusive non-daters or serial monogamists. they often have difficulty connecting with people or fall too hard for the wrong people, leading many of them to give up on trying to actively date.
