#ow

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#crime #marlowe #noir #funny

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge. ↗

— Tom Regan

#humans #self-knowledge

Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No ↗

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#how-to-focus #saying-no #stay-focused #procrastination

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt, and I was terribly uncertain of the relationships between sex and power and value, which seemed so merged and hard to tease apart. In the midst of all that, I didn't exactly loathe my body, or feel ashamed of it, but I was deeply ashamed of my fear, which felt disabling and immature and woefully, painfully uncool, a terrible secret, evidence of some profound failing and ignorance on my part. Other girls, or so I imagined, knew what to do, how to use their power, how to derive pleasure from it, and in contrast, I felt not only freakish but isolated, as though I was standing outside a vital, defining loop. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#power #puberty #sexuality #imagination

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#learning #parents #parents-and-children #self-awareness #self-development

I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #now #procrastination #tomorrow #procrastination

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#fiction #internet #michelle-pillow #procrastinate #procrastination

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#power #tease #bullying

(Xander) He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#knowlege #librarians

This song goes out to anyone whose ever been told that how you think or feel is wrong. It goes out to everyone who’s ever felt alone. It goes out to anybody who’s fucking sick and tired of being told what to do. You are, the most important person in the world. Every single one of you. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, okay? ↗

— Alex Gaskarth

#all-time-low #alex