February 2012
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Can you feel your heart breaking? Study shows... →
shannsational:
The relationship between emotional and physical pain goes both ways: just as physical pain-relieving drugs can kill emotional pain, so too can emotional support — for example, holding a loved one’s hand — reduce physical pain.
Research even shows that emotional pain can sometimes activate brain regions that normally process only physical hurt. One recent study of people who...
looked like laughing →
jesuisperdu:
Looked Like Laughing is a collective of writers with an eye for the astonishing. The simple beauties found in the daily grotesque. Vessels without shells, torn brown paper bags, and a secret and soft bravery. Exhausted by the usual stanzas and beaten and bruised by cold creative writing courses, Looked Like Laughing exists on the end of the ellipses, counting dimples and...
texturism:
what you should not do, i think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. you shouldn’t worry about prestige. prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world.
[…]
prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. it causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like.
[…]
prestige is just fossilized...
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation...”
– Sterling Hayden, Wanderer (via jacecooke)
anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
“Abortion was not always illegal before Roe. Into the 19th century, what a woman...”
– Eleanor Cooney, The Way It Was (via prolifehypocrisy)
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You (via funeral)
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly...”
– Cormac McCarthy. (via supersonicelectronic)
awewwe:
perfect.
graveyarddirt:
I found a...
“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements,...”
– Charles Lindbergh (via thesemightysecrets) (via smut-to-go) (via rememo)
You must change your life.
pantherhooves:
Archaic Torso of Apollo
We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation...
“The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your...”
– Helen Mirren, interview, May 25, 2011 in Esquire
reblogging again because relevant
(via carinacakes)
#NP Arcade Fire – Rococo
“My favourite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via rememo)
appuntisparsieventuali:
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
sashawantsmore:
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no...
That depressing moment when you're horny but have...
Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
maryamahmed:
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is...
“I hate how the phrase ‘have some self respect’ is used to shame women who are...”
– Unknown (via terramantra)
