“ Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.
Francois de Sales (via christianity) (via mdfsmash)
improving
“ To have painted a painting does not empty the vessel out of which paintings come. On the contrary, it is the talent which is not in use this is lost or atrophies, and to bestow one of our creations is the surest way to invoke the next…Bestowal creates that empty space into which new energy may flow.
The Gift makes you work for your pull quotes. After 200 pages of anthropological history and cultural analysis, we get to Come Full Circle and Apply What We’ve Learned to what we love; we are all breathless and enthusiatic, underlining with gusto.
It turns out he, Lewis Hyde that is, delves into Whitman first and then Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound was a fascist so I hesitate to say I love him, but Whitman, oh! I have slept with men I shouldn’t for mere recitation of Song of Myself.
I can’t wait. I am praying for train delays.
(via meaghano)
“ The words and ideas that we think can shape our lives and drive us toward success and happiness or failure and distress. How you think and feel can have a profound effect on your ability to recognize opportunity, how well you perform, and the outcome of the goals that you’ve set for yourself. When you maintain an optimistic outlook and make an effort to harbor only positive thoughts, you begin to create the circumstances conducive to you achieving what you desire.
Daily Om (via hilarysiegel)
“ Don’t say ‘like’ so much.
talking to ladies (anyone, really)
“You can show off your “good mate” qualities by taking interest in whatever she’s doing. In the study, asking a women at a bookstore about the paperback she was looking at and talking to a woman at an art museum about the painting she was admiring were both scored favorably by women.
“This doesn’t mean you have to start reading Shakespeare or studying Monet to attract a woman. In fact, namedropping in the wrong situation — such as quoting Byron in a bar — will most likely make you appear pompous instead of intellectual. (Quoting Noel Coward? Okay, a little pretentious, but at least amusing.)
“However, you can use the “what are you reading?” strategy in places outside of the library. Just ask her a question or make a comment about whatever she’s doing, whether it’s the lecture you’re attending or what she’s drinking, Rabin says.”
from…somewhere.
