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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:09:39 -0800

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds,..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:39:06 -0800

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:32:24 -0800

“America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.”

- GWB’s speech writer

"The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:35:15 -0800

““The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. THey don’t decieve you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who fins love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and magic.””

- Arundhati Roy

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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:34:51 -0800

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:23:56 -0800

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Paris with the Rhos!

"ADVICE TO A NEW WRITER: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:17:09 -0800

“ADVICE TO A NEW WRITER: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. HAVE NERVE. BE STUBBORN.”

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:14:57 -0800

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justbesplendid: gratitude

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:09:49 -0800

justbesplendid:

gratitude

"Young adults with higher blood lead levels appear more likely to have major depression and panic..."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:46:01 -0800

“Young adults with higher blood lead levels appear more likely to have major depression and panic disorders, even if they have exposure to lead levels generally considered safe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry”

- Young adults’ blood lead levels linked to depression, panic disorder | JAMA

Maryse F. Bouchard, Ph.D., M.Sc., of the Universite de Montreal, Canada, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues analyzed data from 1,987 adults age 20 to 39 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2004. Participants underwent medical examinations that included collection of a blood sample, and also completed a diagnostic interview to identify major depressive disorder, panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
The number of young adults who met diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder was 134 (6.7 percent), 44 (2.2 percent) had panic disorder and 47 (2.4 percent) had generalized anxiety disorder. The average blood lead level was 1.61 micrograms per deciliter. The one-fifth of participants with the highest blood lead levels (2.11 micrograms per deciliter or more) had 2.3 times the odds of having major depressive disorder and nearly five times the odds of panic disorder as the one-fifth with the lowest lead levels (0.7 micrograms per deciliter or less).

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:40:25 -0800

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"Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person? That’s the..."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:53:13 -0800

“Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person? That’s the advice I would give to women: Don’t look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn’t know. And, more important, how does he treat you? When you’re dating a man, you should always feel good. You should never feel less than. You should never doubt yourself. You shouldn’t be in a relationship with somebody who doesn’t make you completely happy and make you feel whole. And if you’re in that relationship and you’re dating, then my advice is, don’t get married.”

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:51:57 -0800

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sweethomestyle: teaandstrumpets: How I imagine Anne’s...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:51:17 -0800

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teaandstrumpets:

How I imagine Anne’s Prince Edwards Island

spendingtimewithyou: forget it!

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:12:53 -0800

spendingtimewithyou:

forget it!

pinmywings: I would cut my sandwiches like this every day.

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:11:17 -0800

pinmywings:

I would cut my sandwiches like this every day.

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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:07:55 -0800

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"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had."

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:06:43 -0800

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had.”

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:34:40 -0800

I already miss […], of what was once me.

Aristotle's seven causes

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:54:16 -0800

justbesplendid:

m-altruism:

Aristotle said in his book, Rhetoric:
‘Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.’
1. Chance

Chance events affect us all the time and, although some have little effect in changing what we do, a number of others force us to act or otherwise motivate us into action.
2. Nature

Natural forces are those ‘originating in the body, such as the desire for nourishment, namely hunger and thirst’ as well as other forces, such as to procreate.
3. Compulsions

Compulsion occurs when we feel that we must act, even though we may not wish to act this way. This may be compliance with the law or dysfunctional obsessive-compulsive behavior.
4. Habit

Habit is unthinking action, and Aristotle said ‘Acts are done from habit which men do because they have often done them before.’ Whilst compulsion is unpleasant and un-useful repetition of action, habit is pleasant and generally useful.
5. Reasoning

Aristotle points out that rational and reasoned action are to defined ends, achieving something that serves personal goals.
6. Anger

Sometimes interpreted as ‘passion’, anger can lead to extreme action.

Anger is closely related to revenge, and anger curiously lessens when there is no prospect of vengeance.
7. Appetite

Sometimes interpreted as ‘desire’, appetite is ‘craving for pleasure’.

Whilst anger serves negative motivation, ‘Appetite is the cause of all actions that appear pleasant’.

Aristotle pointed out that wealth or poverty is not a cause of action, although the appetite for wealth may well motivate.

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