Don't Sell Yourself to Fall in Love

19 March 12

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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

— [Native American Shawnee Chief] Tecumseh

12 January 12

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“ Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

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24 November 11

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“ Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

— Janet Fitch [White Oleander]

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8 November 11

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do something for someone today.. might change their life.. — Heavy D

RIP Heavy D (1967-2011)

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5 October 11

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Playboy: “Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don’t have that kind of pride in the product?”

Jobs: “If they did, they wouldn’t have made the PCjr.”

[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

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Posted: 7:51 PM

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“ Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

— Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

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Posted: 7:16 PM

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“ Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful that’s what matters to me.

— Steve Jobs [The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]

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Posted: 6:06 PM

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. — Steve Jobs

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Posted: 5:40 PM

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“ That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

— Steve Jobs [BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

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Posted: 5:38 PM

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“ You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

— Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

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29 September 11

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“ Life is a bitch; but I’m not complaining.

— My New York Aunt <3

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22 September 11

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“ I’ve always looked at love as hitchhiking, hopping from car to car meeting person after person, searching for that perfect ride. And to be on the road hitchhiking and not in a car means you’re in somewhat of a romantic rut, with bags on your shoulder (emotional baggage). Some see the baggage as a liability and never pull over to give you the chance at love…

— TiRon (talking about the story behind Jack Kerouac (the first song on A Sucker For Pumps, which also happens to my favorite song on the album)

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12 September 11

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“ If you aren’t putting your all into it then you are wasting your time; and probably someone else’s.

— TiRon

9 September 11

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“ Character is higher than intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh