February 2012
88 posts
carpe-b-l-i-s-s asked: heyy I just made a new inspirational blog for positive thinking :] can you please follow it? and get others to follow it too? thank you xx find-your-positive-inspiration
Message from a good friend
“Any of you feeling down? Think there’s no positive in life? I lived my life like that for a long time, I may still do.. this blog is to remind us that the only way to pick ourselves back up is by thinking positive. This blog will bring a positive inspiration to all of us. Have a good day all of you… and remember think positive! :]”
Y’all should follow her tumblr (I...
If
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and...
Anonymous asked: Excessive satire is Anna's (M. Gandhi) greatest flaw, and what keeps her from becoming a leader in the feminist movement. You're 19, yet you already recognize what many feminists don't - it's about equality, not a dominant gender. White-hating feminazis are not a sign of progress, neither is joking about being one. It teaches no lessons. Today's feminist movement does not...
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
– Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (via fyeahliteraryquotes)
“I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from...”
– Sylvia Plath, written in 1949 at age 17 (via unchastes)
“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs...”
– Franz Kafka (via vashti)
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”
– Noam Chomsky, who knows nothing. (via incorrectnoamchomskyquotes)
Sounds like Aristotle. it is an aristotle quote isn’t it
(via lakrymosa)
A similar quote, which becomes a philosophical theme, is said by Socrates in Plato’s Apology from The Trial and Death of Socrates at 21d:
I am wiser than...
