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December 2011
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phiLOLZophy: Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger →
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Everyone’s life is hard. This seems obvious but for a long, long time I thought I was the only one. I thought the other girls in high school were losing their virginity on the the 50 yard line to the quarterback. I lost my virginity while I was blacked out, there was nothing special or romantic…
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
—Charles Bukowski (via wordpainting)
11 Things to Know at 25 →
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This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find God and themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. They mean to find a church, they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.
“Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.
Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? What have I learned about God this year? What parts of my childhood faith am I leaving behind, and what parts am I choosing to keep? Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?””
“Striking a serious blow to the contention that it’s bad teaching — not bad luck in life — that makes some American students perform much worse than others (and all of them much worse than students in other countries), Ravitch noted that on a recent international test, the Program for International Student Assessment, “American schools in which fewer than 10% of the students were poor outperformed the schools of Finland, Japan and Korea. Even when as many as 25% of the students were poor, American schools performed as well as the top-scoring nations. As the proportion of poor students rises, the scores of U.S. schools drop.”
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Judith Warner: Why Are The Rich So Interested in Public School Reform? —TIME.com
It’s really hard to not copy all of this article into a massive quote-block.
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“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
—Ayn Rand (via creatingaquietmind)
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
—Willa Cather; The Song of the Lark (via wordpainting)
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via creatingaquietmind)
The Tangential: What Happens to Me at Gay Bars →
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I feel comfortable. As soon as I walk in, and the doorman says, “Hi, Honey! $5,” I know I’ve come to the right place. Even though he says that to every single bachelorette who walks through the door, I know he means it the most for me because I’m not covered in light-up necklaces. When I walk…
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
—L.M. Montgomery (via creatingaquietmind)
all I want to do is travel.
“Too little of you
and my goodness, far too much
of everyone else.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via creatingaquietmind)
and my goodness, far too much
of everyone else.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via creatingaquietmind)
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
—Neil Gaiman (via excessivebookshelf)
“I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don’t want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.”
—What Is the What by Dave Eggers
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