In case of a bad day

rand0mflora: youmightfindyourself: “We enter a little...

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:11:22 +0300

youmightfindyourself:

“We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:
‘Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended’ They pay for their order, take the two and leave.

I ask my friend: “What are those ‘suspended’ coffees?”
My friend: “Wait for it and you will see.”

Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four ‘suspended’. While I still wonder what’s the deal with those ‘suspended’ coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café. Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in through the door and kindly asks
‘Do you have a suspended coffee ?’

It’s simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who can not afford a warm beverage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support? If you own a business why don’t you offer it to your clients… I am sure many of them will like it. (via Mind Boggling Stories)

“Today you, tomorrow me”, as Reddit likes to put it.

"And just like that he picked her up and dusted her off. Without even trying. That’s how their love..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:06:03 +0300

“And just like that he picked her up and dusted her off. Without even trying. That’s how their love was. When she was at her worst, he saw her at her best.”

- M.M. (via yesdarlingido)

The very last Calvin & Hobbes Comic

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:03:04 +0300

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pbjsandwitch:

i am i am i am: A Conversation with my Mom about Religion (read this out loud or don't read it)

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:38:37 +0300

i am i am i am: A Conversation with my Mom about Religion (read this out loud or don't read it):

allmymetaphors:

Do not tell me I need god
when I am caught skipping class
and the lines around my fingers from
vomiting up stress glow red
and I cannot sleep.
I do not need anything
that tells me my existence is wrong.

Do not tell me I am sinning
when I skip church to meditate
…

"when i was a kid, i used to believe that the street lights were powered by a little village that..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:11:27 +0300

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when i was a kid, i used to believe that the street lights were powered by a little village that decided when to turn things red and when to turn them green. i apologized to the milk cartons i didn’t choose while in the school cafeteria line. i remember watching a girl pass out in front of me, because she was trying to be skinny to make everyone happy, and i went home and cried about it. i never learned her name, i just remembered her skeleton and the way her eyes bore landmines.

the two greatest tragedies of my life to date were of learning that dandelions are considered weeds and that shooting stars are actually falling asteroids and nothing more.

when i was in sophomore year, or maybe it was junior year, there was this really bad storm and without saying a word, i bolted out of the door and despite my asthmatic lungs, i ran all the way to north side park. i sat on the wet swing and i pushed myself higher and higher until i was catching lightning bolts and it was in the middle of one of the worse storms i have ever witnessed (i have french kissed funnel clouds), but i was not scared. i told the sky: welcome. i told the rain: take me. i told the thunder: you are the echo of my heartbeat. i walked back home after the eye of the storm and was drenched wet, soaked to the bone, but i was infinite, i was gone, i was no longer me—there was only sky made of my bones.

right now, my stomach is made of fuzz and i’ve got ribs that are speaking of things i do not understand. there are hieroglyphics in the inner of my thighs that i wished to ask your mouth to decipher, but you are made of different things than i am. i am made of the melancholy of these melodramatic expressions of my mouth, the synapses of sentences that slip from the concave of my lungs in an attempt to make sense of something like oxygen again—

and forgive me because i am a little irrational at times; forgive me, because i am made of an organic composition that is not of this earth. i am from some plane that was not meant to exist here and i have been trying to find my home in vain for what feels like a thousand years. there are times that i think i have found it in your chest, but you are somewhere else and i am here and i think that maybe i have this tendency to over do, this inability to comprehend that maybe my insides are made of too many tender things that these people around me have no interest in.

too many shots down on an empty stomach and all i want to do is kiss you, but instead i think maybe i will climb upstairs, curl into my bed, and remember that there are things inside of me worth loving and maybe maybe maybe one day they will be seen.

”

- “because i don’t want to blow up your phone at two in the morning with drunk texts”, archaoism (via noxtalgic)

cyberunfamous: Pieces by me

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:04:51 +0200

cyberunfamous:

Pieces by me

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:00:43 +0200

"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:59:15 +0200

““There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going.””

- John Green (via floruhh)

suns3tparadise: “After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:58:57 +0200

suns3tparadise:

“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out-but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

-John Green, Looking For Alaska

"Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:12:11 +0200

“Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. She’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.”

- Kris Carr (via decadere)

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:49:54 +0200

"Do you really want to know what happens up there? You’ll never know. Supposedely landing on the moon..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:31:38 +0200

“Do you really want to know what happens up there? You’ll never know. Supposedely landing on the moon will generate a lot of literature, it will be good for some people, I mean yes, newspapers sold really well for 48 hours but why does it matter to us, we know full well we won’t go to the Moon. And why would we go? Why do we want to be more than human? It’s to entertain the masses; you don’t see the rottenness behind it all. It’s all about money, only money. We’re in a time of scientists speaking to ignoramus. So you listen to them as you listen to catechism, not believing a word of it. I don’t believe it. Do you believe it? Do you believe we’re going to build little huts up there and that there will be regular planes three times a week? It’s all becoming absurd you see. What are our foundations? There’s no moral, no modesty, nothing, there’s only money to talk about, and eat good and bad food. And dream we’ll go to the Moon. What for? It’s that stupid. We’re drowning in bottomless stupidity at the moment and it really bothers me because I believe stupidity to be the worst. You can forgive anything except stupidity and these are stupid things.”

- Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, on landing on the moon, from an interview dated 1969 (via violentwavesofemotion)

"Be quiet. And that doesn’t mean that you are no longer expected to share your feelings and tell..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:30:39 +0200

“Be quiet. And that doesn’t mean that you are no longer expected to share your feelings and tell jokes and engage in conversation — it just means be quiet. Sometimes, quiet is needed. Learn to appreciate what quiet can be for people. Learn how two people can sit on different sides of the room, silently engaging in their own activities, and still achieve a profound sense of closeness.”

- How to Love an Introvert, Charlotte Green (via creatingaquietmind)

explore-blog: “Good habits are worth being fanatical...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:24:34 +0200

explore-blog:

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.” ~ John Irving

Complement with William James on habit, then learn how to rewire your habit loops.

zilleniose: ihaveacookie: littleturtleduck: danielefton: ruin...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:20:20 +0200

zilleniose:

ihaveacookie:

littleturtleduck:

danielefton:

ruiniscrazy:

lebanesetoaster:

melodiesintheair:

jarpadd:

I suggest all females watch this.

*i suggest all humans watch this.

If you haven’t watched this yet, you really should.

This is a must, girls and boys.

I agree that everyone should watch this. This is one of the few videos on female representation in the media that at least tries to point out that the way females are represented has a negative effect on everyone, not just women.

I love that this`touches also on how media affects men, but wow. Stereotypes are perpetuated by television more than in reality, and they are so skewed because they have to be provocative or funny or any number of things that aren’t complete or real enough.

This affects not only women and men, but race, gays and lesbians, trans people, all people.

We all struggle against what we are supposed to be, what we are told we should be, and yet when positions in media and PR change, the image doesn’t. Because people get those positions by conforming to that image, and breaking out risks loss.

This is why it is so hard for anyone to be who they really are, because they are so busy being what other’s expect so as not to be harassed for not being what they are supposed to be.

Oh man, Geena Davis. I love her with all -y heart.

All my followers should watch this video

Everyone needs to watch this and see how harmful misrepresentation and perpetuating harmful stereotypes are not just to a minority group, but to everyone.

Only by adapting a new way of thinking, by treating everyone equally, and even eroding gender roles, can we influence our peers and perpetuate something good.

"I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:06:03 +0200

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”

- Tomaz Salamun (via thisamericancyph)

"An old Cherokee chief took his grandchildren into the forest and sat them down and said to them, “A..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:21:10 +0200

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An old Cherokee chief took his grandchildren into the forest and sat them down and said to them, “A fight is going on inside me. This is a terrible fight and it is a fight between two wolves. One wolf is the wolf of fear, anger, arrogance, and greed. The other wolf is the wolf of courage, kindness, humility, and love.” The children were very quiet and listening to their grandfather with both their ears as he then said to them, “This same fight between the two wolves that is going on inside of me is also going on inside of you, and inside of every person.”

They thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked the chief, “Grandfather, which wolf will win the fight?”

He said quietly, “The one you feed.”

”

- Old Cherokee legend, quoted in Someday You’ll Thank Me for This! (via explore-blog)

"Men aren’t stupid, and you don’t need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you...."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:18:27 +0200

“Men aren’t stupid, and you don’t need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here’s the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

- Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup (via idontwantsex)