Interesting Links In Addition To Texts From Previous Years On My Facebook: 5/9 - 29/12

(from 5/9 to 29/12)


"I don't want to gain immortality through my work. I want to gain immortality past times non dying."
- Woody Allen


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"Usually the nifty things that travel on inwards your life, receive got identify when y'all are exterior of your comfort zone."
- Eben Pagan


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"Confine yourself to the present."
- Marcus Aurelius


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What's to a greater extent than fun than seeing someone eat rattling hot chili peppers? Seeing an orchestra play classical music spell eating rattling hot chili peppers: https://goo.gl/biqpP7

In this video Chili Klaus forces the (now disbanded) Danish National Chamber Orchestra to play Jacob Gade's "Tango Jalousie" spell suffering through the effects of some severely hot chili peppers. Very funny!


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If y'all are an artist/producer or DJ, read these brusk together with skillful articles via Dubspot together with Digital DJ Tips:

a) 5 tips for getting things done together with self motivation: http://goo.gl/fapno

b) 10 tips to acquire by writer’s block together with growth studio productivity: http://goo.gl/iaoej

c) The vii deadly sins of DJ'ing: http://goo.gl/bn8mv

d) vii deadly sins of tape collecting: http://goo.gl/o1qfj


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Try these costless resources if y'all are having problems figuring out what y'all want to do, or finding your role inwards life:

1) H5N1 "Five Year Plan" past times Neil Strauss. These are rattling specific questions close where y'all view yourself inwards 5 years, concerning career, social life, human relationship status, recreational activities - together with therefore forming goals based on your answers: http://goo.gl/6hoZ7

2) Three costless guided sound sessions from Hale Dwoskin, the author of The Sedona Method: http://goo.gl/AAOrI
- "Eliminating the blocks to success"
- "Goals, life purpose, together with relationships"
- "Why y'all aren't achieving your goals... together with what to exercise close it"

3) Some really skillful articles past times Steve Pavlina:
- "Life role together with values": http://goo.gl/zZLhs
- "Living your values business office I": http://goo.gl/em5nA
- "Living your values business office II": http://goo.gl/1rj51

Also read other related articles on Pavlina's site.


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35 photographs animated therefore beautifully they are non precisely animated GIFs, but "cinemagraphs".

Photographic fine art done extremely well: https://goo.gl/tl3w7h



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See this amazing 5 infinitesimal exhibit close deception together with illusion, past times Swiss wizard Marco Tempest, recorded at TED Global 2011.

He uses iii iPods equally magical together with technological props similar y'all receive got never seen before: http://goo.gl/Evhvu


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"Joy is what happens to us when nosotros allow ourselves to recognize how skillful things really are."
- Marianne Williamson


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"One 24-hour interval your life volition flash earlier your eyes. Make certain it's worth watching."


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Are y'all doing something creative? Remember - at that spot are no rules.

The to a greater extent than "rules" y'all break, the to a greater extent than interesting your creative run volition be.


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"We demand to create books cool again. If y'all travel dwelling identify amongst somebody together with they don’t receive got books, don’t fuck them. Don’t allow them explore y'all until they’ve explored the surreptitious universes of books. Don’t allow them connect amongst y'all until they’ve walked betwixt the lines on the pages.
Books are cool - if y'all receive got to withhold yourself from someone for a chip inwards monastic enjoin for them to realize this therefore exercise so."
- John Waters


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Neurotics construct castles inwards the sky.

Psychotics alive inwards them.

Psychiatrists collect the rent.


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"Happiness, non inwards some other place, but this place; non for some other hour, but this hour."
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892, poet)


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With a piffling assistance from Cassetteboy together with Eminem, David Cameron turns out to live a surprisingly skillful rapper. Here's his novel song: http://goo.gl/mRGvo3

Lyrics extracts:
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"I'm hardcore together with I know the score
And I am disgusted past times the poor
And my chums thing more
Because nosotros are the law
And I've made sure
We're ready for cast war
Taking coin from the homo who works long hours
Giving ability to the tycoons inwards the drinking glass towers
People ascent from the bottom to the top
Has got to stop
We receive got the bravery
To convey dorsum slavery.
We don't care
if you're driven to despair
Don't y'all dare say
It's non fair
I'm non proverb it's non funny
It is for me, I've got loads of money"


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"The best way to predict the futurity is to create it."
- Peter Drucker (1909-2005)


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"You solely alive once, but if y'all exercise it right, in 1 trial is enough."
- Mae West


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Incredibly cute video of a rattling elderly twain who discovers a pianoforte inwards a vestibule together with gives an impromptu performance. The guy is 90!

Check it out: http://goo.gl/1FcX2


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"Shall nosotros create a novel dominion of life from tonight: e'er to seek to live a piffling kinder than is necessary?"
- Sir James Matthew Barrie inwards his play "The Little White Bird" (1902)


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Here's the most useful article I've read inwards a long fourth dimension together with that I recommend.

It's a practical together with detailed guide past times Buster Benson on how to utilisation chaos to acquire stronger, instead of giving up. Read via Medium: http://goo.gl/WisFpX

Go through the whole article, but basically y'all start past times next these principles of antifragility, posed past times Nassim Nicholas Taleb inwards his volume "Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder":
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* Stick to unproblematic rules
* Build inwards redundancy together with layers (no unmarried betoken of failure)
* Resist the urge to suppress randomness
* Make certain that y'all receive got your soul inwards the game
* Experiment together with tinker — receive got lots of small-scale risks
* Avoid risks that, if lost, would wipe y'all out completely
* Don’t acquire consumed past times data
* Keep your options open
* Focus to a greater extent than on avoiding things that don’t run than trying to uncovering out what does work
* Respect the former — aspect for habits together with rules that receive got been some for a long time


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"A piffling to a greater extent than persistence, a piffling to a greater extent than effort, together with what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915, writer, publisher, creative someone together with philosopher)


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"Do 1 thing every 24-hour interval that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt


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"I fence nosotros are both atheists, I precisely believe inwards 1 fewer god than y'all do. When y'all sympathise why y'all dismiss all the other possible gods, y'all volition sympathise why I dismiss yours."
- Stephen F. Roberts


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"If y'all are irritated past times every rub, how volition y'all live polished?"
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī

He was also known equally Rumi, together with was a 13th-century Farsi poet, jurist, theologian, together with Sufi mystic.


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"A frog inwards a good cannot conceive of the ocean."
- Zhuang Zhou


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"All of us who receive got had successes amongst vocal writing know that a really skillful vocal volition e'er sell; nosotros also know that nosotros had to write many, many bad songs earlier nosotros were able to write a skillful one. So plough ahead into writing songs, non caring whether they are skillful or bad, precisely equally long equally they are completed. And amongst solely 1 status - that each 1 live meliorate than the 1 before."
- Stephen Citron inwards "Song Writing (A Complete Guide To The Craft)".

And of course of didactics the same thinking applies to whatever craft. You don't demand 10.000 hours, but y'all exercise demand to a greater extent than than 10!


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I really relish reading Roger Ebert's reviews, but solely after I've seen the films, because he tended to give away far besides much of the plot.

Still, it's rattling interesting to read him together with therefore compare that to your ain experience of the film, y'all experience similar y'all sympathise the celluloid better.

Here's an archive of his reviews: https://goo.gl/fiLFqC


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 “If people aren’t laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren’t large enough.”


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New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that volition create your encephalon happy. Via Bakadesuyo: http://goo.gl/0Q5feQ

Read the article - but here's a shorter summary:
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1) Ask “What am I grateful for?” No answers? Doesn’t matter. Just searching helps.
2) Label those negative emotions. Give it a holler together with your encephalon isn’t therefore bothered past times it.
3) Decide. Go for “good enough” instead of “best conclusion ever made on Earth.”
4) Hugs, hugs, hugs. Don’t text — touch.


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"That's the measure technique of privatization: defund, create certain things don't work, people acquire angry, y'all manus it over to individual capital."
- Noam Chomsky

From a lecture given at the University of Toronto, Apr 7, 2011: http://goo.gl/BDQasb


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Five things to hold inwards hear regarding getting the RIGHT things done:
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1) Get sufficient sleep
2) Do the most of import thing earlier anything else
3) Take intermittent breaks to renew together with refuel
4) Write everything down
5) Continually inquire yourself how you're spending your time

Full article past times Tony Schwartz, via The New York Times' site DealBook: http://goo.gl/ZW6Evs


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"Where women are educated together with empowered, economies are to a greater extent than productive together with strong. Where women are fully represented, societies are to a greater extent than peaceful together with stable."
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (via Deeyah)


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Check out this article close a guy who hired a fille to slap him inwards the human face upwardly if he used Facebook or other non-productive sites: http://goo.gl/CbB6p


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"I must written report politics together with state of war that my sons may receive got liberty to written report mathematics together with philosophy. My sons ought to written report mathematics together with philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, together with agriculture, inwards monastic enjoin to give their children a correct to written report painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, together with porcelain."
- John Adams (1735-1826)


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Can aging live by together with large a mind-set? Even a known placebo tin give the sack receive got a medically proven effect, equally Ellen Langer's experiments amongst reversing aging show.


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She is the longest-serving professor of psychology at Harvard University, together with this article inwards The New York Times tells her story: http://goo.gl/zPFnio


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"How wonderful it is that nobody demand hold off a unmarried 2nd earlier starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank


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On this 24-hour interval xxx years agone 1 of the most of import popular albums ever was released - Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Welcome To The Pleasuredome".

Play it inwards full, together with spell listening read some analyses of Frankie together with the album, by:
- The Quietus: http://goo.gl/341Jyk
- MusicRadar: http://goo.gl/T9efIq
- The Guardian: http://goo.gl/voAmEU
- This Is Book's Music: http://goo.gl/Uhu2qS


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"Bernie Sanders is drawing crowds inwards the thousands, but for some argue the 'media' has decided y'all can't live a serious candidate if your pilus looks similar your dick got caught inwards an electrical socket."
- Jon Stewart on The Daily Show


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"You exercise non e'er receive got to know when y'all are going to acquire to your goal, or how y'all are going to acquire to your goal, but y'all exercise demand to receive got the adjacent step."
- Peggy McColl


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"Security is by together with large a superstition. It does non be inwards nature, nor exercise the children of men equally a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer inwards the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To hold our faces toward alter together with bear similar costless spirits inwards the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
- Helen Keller


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For many years the unloose energy gulp Red Bull receive got had lectures past times nifty musicians together with producers equally business office of their Red Bull Music Academy.

On their website y'all tin give the sack uncovering hundreds of long video interviews they've conducted amongst musical pioneers together with legends - together with hither are some of the best: http://goo.gl/9csjpa


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50 life hacks to simplify your world, via TwistedSifter: http://goo.gl/BmQpGr


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Author, coach together with mentor Gerald Rogers got divorced, after sixteen years of marriage.

Here's the advice he wishing he would receive got had, therefore he didn't lose the adult woman he loved: http://goo.gl/uyyF1M


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"Sexual Healing" past times Marvin Gaye meets "P-Machinery" past times Propaganda inwards this nifty mashup: https://goo.gl/RAAAsu

Matt Pop fuses Gaye's smooth sensuality amongst angst-driven industrial High German grooves, together with it's dissimilar most bastard popular I've ever heard. Play loud!

Also banking corporation check out Matt's YouTube channel for TONS to a greater extent than of his remixes together with mashups. Definitely someone to follow: https://goo.gl/DfDCqS


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"At whatever moment, y'all receive got a choice, that either leads y'all closer to your spirit or farther away from it."
- Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk, author, poet together with peace activist)


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Some skillful posts past times Steve Pavlina on his Google+ page: http://goo.gl/4NMKJ
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- "To focus on large goals, you'll demand to allow many smaller problems to travel unresolved."
- "Maintenance is non progress."
- "When exercise y'all receive got the longest stretches of precisely loving life?"
- "You receive got the correct to live a paradox."
- "If y'all pay to a greater extent than attending to contribution, y'all won't receive got to pay equally much attending to money."
- "Don't aspect to receive got much clarity close what lies ii chapters ahead. Finish the electrical flow chapter first."
- "You receive got support."
- "You really exercise care."
- "Doing the correct things past times accident is to a greater extent than effective than knowing the correct things to exercise together with non doing them."
- "There's no shame inwards doing your best together with falling short. There is shame inwards belongings back."
- "An hr from right away y'all could know a lot to a greater extent than close a bailiwick than y'all exercise now."
- "If your life was summarized inwards a 100-minute movie, which events would live included to force your character's journey?"
- "People oftentimes inquire me for advice hoping I tin give the sack supply the solution that requires no courage."
- "If y'all want to acquire an overnight success, pass a decade edifice your skills first."
- "Creativity is free, but the paintbrush volition toll you."
- "On a scale of 1-10, how hard are the challenges you're currently facing? 8-10 is a skillful arrive at for growth."


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Short, sudden together with observant - a imitation Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer. Very funny past times BriTANicK: http://goo.gl/0K5vD


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This Gotye meme is old, but soundless good: http://goo.gl/oEo30


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I've never earlier seen this many amazing basketball game shots compiled into 1 video, all done past times the same 4 guys. Beautiful stuff: http://goo.gl/DICrP


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Author, coach together with mentor Gerald Rogers got divorced, after sixteen years of marriage.

Here's the advice he wishing he would receive got had, therefore he didn't lose the adult woman he loved: http://goo.gl/uyyF1M


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"Acknowledging the skillful that y'all already receive got inwards your life is the foundation for all abundance."
- Eckhart Tolle


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"Kindness is an inner want that makes us want to exercise skillful things fifty-fifty if nosotros exercise non acquire anything inwards return. It is the joy of our life to exercise them. When nosotros exercise skillful things from this inner desire, at that spot is kindness inwards everything nosotros think, say, want together with do."
- Emmanuel Swedenborg


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Doing anything creative? Then y'all should read these viii tips from Malene B for getting PR - without an agent: http://goo.gl/muYGRt

Even though she does carpets, her advice is universal together with applies to everyone. Read the whole article for to a greater extent than details, but hither are her principal points:

1) Define your create mission
2) Be different
3) Network
4) Attend events
5) Be portfolio-ready
6) Update photography
7) Make contact
8) Be strategic


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xv things to exercise when y'all are a piffling lost: http://goo.gl/FYqojZ

Because nosotros all experience a piffling lost sometimes.


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"Fuck democracy. Fuck liberty of speech. Fuck human rights. Book a opor-garai inwards Vietnam, Thailand or Mexico.": http://goo.gl/VImDY


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"Megan Fox's appeal is that she looks similar a porn star together with has the same acting talent equally one, yet for some argue she makes mainstream movies. This tonal disconnect is what's therefore appealing close her."


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"If there's no action, y'all haven't really decided."
- Tony Robbins


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"A adult woman has a unopen manlike someone friend. This agency that he is in all likelihood interested inwards her, which is why he hangs some therefore much. She sees him strictly equally a friend. This e'er starts out with, 'You're a nifty guy, but I don't similar y'all inwards that way.'

This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a undertaking interview together with the companionship saying, 'You receive got a nifty resume, y'all receive got all the qualifications nosotros are looking for, but we're non going to hire you.

We will, however, utilisation your resume equally the reason for comparing for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified together with is in all likelihood an alcoholic. And if he doesn't run out, we'll hire somebody else, but soundless non you.

In fact, nosotros volition never hire you. But nosotros volition telephone band y'all from fourth dimension to fourth dimension to complain close the someone that nosotros hired.'"

(from bash.org: http://goo.gl/LVcXGy)


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"Life's challenges are non supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to assistance y'all uncovering who y'all are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon


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Use it or lose it. Snooze together with y'all lose.


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"My best friend is the 1 who brings out the best inwards me."
- Henry Ford


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You must view these fantastic one-minute films past times Rick Mereki, showcasing the public inwards all its beauty.

The iii films receive got different concepts, together with takes y'all through xi countries together with 44 days inwards iii minutes.
- "MOVE": http://goo.gl/EExJ7
- "EAT": http://goo.gl/S7W2b
- "LEARN": http://goo.gl/2hlpy


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Cool quote from blogger together with erotic author Violet Blue, writing close X-Art spell describing MetArt's newest site SexArt:

"X-Art exhibit hot, hard, sometimes a chip nasty – but e'er pretty – porn. It's similar porn for those that want their anal sexual practice equally if it were presented, cast, directed together with laid decorated past times Apple."

From TinyNibbles: http://goo.gl/pWG6h


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Very of import together with classic TED verbalize amongst Sam Harris close why scientific discipline tin give the sack really live used equally a moral compass, together with why religious belief is non a skillful way of finding correct or incorrect answers to large questions: http://goo.gl/k0SJ1


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"If tomorrow, women woke upwardly together with decided they really liked their bodies, precisely recollect how many industries would acquire out of business."
- Gail Dines


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I inquiry everything, together with worship nothing.


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"It’s pretty amazing that our gild has reached a betoken where the attempt necessary to extract fossil oil from the ground, shipping it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, purchase it together with convey it dwelling identify is considered to live less attempt than what it takes to precisely launder the spoon when you’re done amongst it."


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See these brusk together with deeply inspirational videos past times The School of Life: http://goo.gl/FqYZEv

It solely takes 10 minutes to view all of them, together with the topics are Forgiveness, Gratitude together with Calm.

The School of Life is founded past times philosopher Alain de Botton together with Sophie Howarth.


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The School of Life also has lots of costless essays inwards its online library: http://goo.gl/90IGKR

Whatever y'all want to read close y'all should uncovering something here, equally at that spot is a huge selection of interesting writings that y'all tin give the sack digest slow over time.

These are the principal topics they are published under:
* Bibliotherapy
* Creativity
* Culture
* Death
* Digital Life
* Family
* Mind & Body
* Money & Status
* Nature
* Relationships
* Society
* Soul
* Travel & Play
* Work
* World


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For those who haven't seen them yet, hither are Lars Von Trier's novel together with harrowing tourist adverts for Denmark: http://goo.gl/kSOer

Presented past times the ever amusing The Onion.


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Fantastic storey inwards The Onion close this image: https://goo.gl/g7gPD9

Check out Moses together with Jesus Christ existence masturbated past times Ganesha, who at the same fourth dimension is fisting Buddha.


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"You may never know what results come upwardly from your action. But if y'all exercise nothing, at that spot volition live no result."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


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Now y'all officially receive got no argue to tell "I'm bored" or "there's nil to do", because hither y'all acquire twoscore useful sites to larn novel skills: http://goo.gl/u2mH7c

Presented past times Marc together with Angel, who also receive got a lot of other skillful articles on how to maximize your life.


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How to laid SMARTER goals. Make certain they fit all these criterias:

southward - Specific, Simple
M - Measurable, Meaningful
H5N1 - All Areas Of Your Life, As If They're Happening Now
R - Realistic, Responsible
T - Timed, Towards-motivated
E - Ecological
R - Rewarding (What volition live the actual vantage or heart's desire?)


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"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to uncovering you."
- Hāfez (Persian poet from the 14th century)


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Good column inwards The New York Times close how nosotros are systematically spending 50% to a greater extent than resources than nosotros receive got available, together with what effects this volition on the planet together with our lives.

"The reason is full": http://goo.gl/2olZO


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Really cool together with thought-provoking "want that, demand this" cards amongst many subjects: http://goo.gl/iWn39

For example: "Want besides many things. Need to want less".


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Check out a hard disk video done amongst a super high speed digital flick home photographic television set camera shooting at 2,564 frames per second.

Exceptionally cool extreme slow motion: http://goo.gl/Q6gLi


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Play this loud - it's Curve's "Fait Accompli" inwards its extended extended extended mix. Dark, slow, moody together with groovy. Maybe the best together with most futuristic rail of 1992: http://goo.gl/IPtki

Toni Halliday is right away Chatelaine, past times the way. This mix is past times Flood aka Mark Ellis together with Alan Moulder, released on Anxious, the label of Dave Stewart from Eurythmics.


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Funny way to revisit history: "If historical events had Facebook statuses".
- Part 1: http://bit.ly/b3w0sM
- Part 2: http://bit.ly/byDHFA


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"Do non wait; the fourth dimension volition never live 'just right'. Start where y'all stand, together with run amongst whatever tools y'all may receive got at your command, together with meliorate tools volition live institute equally y'all travel along."
- Napoleon Hill


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See these spectacular photograph interpretations - Jane Long Photography from Commonwealth of Australia has drastically altered former dark together with white prints, taken past times Costică Acsinte some Romania inwards the early on 20th century.

BuzzFeed has collected them together with added a overnice transition resultant y'all tin give the sack exercise yourself, seek it out: http://goo.gl/SNFk1Y

Also at that spot are 5000 to a greater extent than master copy photographs to view past times Colecția Costică Acsinte: http://goo.gl/W1wQb7


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Entrepreneur together with author James Altucher has been through to a greater extent than than most.

Here he has some really skillful together with practical tips on how to acquire by loneliness:
http://goo.gl/bXT1sj


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if you're happy together with y'all know it, what combination of prescription medication are y'all on?


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Today I went to view Quincy Jones verbalize amongst Mari Pangestu, the Indonesian Minister for Tourism together with Creative Economy. The verbalize was close the nation together with futurity of the music industry, together with a business office of Hello Asean/ASEAN Fair 2011, held at the luxurious Peninsula Island inwards Nusa Dua, Bali.

The verbalize was followed past times iii contemporary compositions played past times the Indonesian national orchestra, led past times Franki Raden. During the concert Quincy was sitting inwards front end of us, together with when the Minister of Trade arrived inwards the middle of a song, he started talking pretty loud to Quincy. I felt similar leaning forwards together with saying, "Hey man, hold your phonation down, I'm trying to hear to the music", but I imagined that wouldn't receive got had the best outcome. (Banned from Republic of Indonesia for life? Quite possible.)

After nosotros were served a lavish dinner amongst vino spell to a greater extent than acts played rattling overnice and/or interesting music - Sruti Respati, Maya Hasan, Sandhy Sondoro, JFlow together with more.

I fifty-fifty got to verbalize a piffling amongst Quincy lonely after the verbalize (and recommended some music for him), together with he told me that he has ii half-Swedish daughers together with used to engagement Swedish music legend/sex symbol Lill-Babs, therefore he knows a chip of Swedish. Such a overnice guy, y'all tin give the sack experience it inwards his attitude.

And I met a bunch of famous Indonesian musicians together with artists, addition other overnice people from Jakarta. All inwards all a skillful day.

I also want to encounter his daughter, the actress Rashida Jones, best-known from the comedy serial "Parks together with Recreation" past times Amy Poehler. Not solely because she seems really cool, but also because I recollect we'd receive got beautiful children together. And it would live nifty to receive got Quincy equally my father-in-law!

She did engagement guys similar Mark Ronson together with Tobey Maguire though, together with I receive got a feeling it could live hard to top them... Plus she supposedly connects best amongst Jewish guys, together with I don't experience similar converting. :p


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If y'all receive got forgotten how to stone or y'all experience old, read this.

It's a rattling inspiring description of a pit experience at a concert, during the legendary parties held past times Hype Machine at this year's SXSW festival: http://goo.gl/1jfPc

"Right equally the band began to play nosotros started dancing similar idiots together with pushing into people. It was the in conclusion nighttime together with nosotros completely gave no fucks whatsoever. I had been inwards therefore many audiences where people precisely wanted to stand upwardly some spell I wanted to displace together with they would force me together with give me glares, together with I was absolutely non going to view that on my in conclusion night. We were non going to allow a unmarried someone to stand upwardly inwards the front end together with suck the unloose energy out of the band. We were going to jibe their intensity together with amplify it dorsum at them. In the beginning, no 1 wanted to receive got fun except 1 or ii people. H5N1 bunch of pricks had brought their girlfriends to the front end together with didn’t want anyone to bump into them despite the fact that they were at a fucking ROCK show!

I had at to the lowest degree six drinks thrown into my human face upwardly past times the 2nd or tertiary vocal (which was a approving because they were mutual frigidity together with I was hot equally balls). I ran into a random co-worker together with fifty-fifty he was non allowed to stand upwardly idle. I learned later on that some ornery guy was ready to trounce my donkey for bumping into him, but my co-worker told him I had Asperger’s. H5N1 few people saw the fun inwards what nosotros were doing, but most people precisely wanted to stand upwardly at that spot nodding similar a bunch of bobbleheads.

Then, finally, this 1 giant guy saw the fun nosotros were trying to create together with the problem nosotros were having together with he bulldozed into the audience, clearing an 8 ft circle. At this betoken nosotros controlled the space. People were soundless shoving us inwards anger, but the tide had turned. Mainly it was those pricks trying to protect their girlfriends, but their girlfriends weren’t pussies similar them together with they started to trammel into the pit. We started to attain critical mass. And this was a GOOD pit, too. Not 1 of those thrashy metallic pits, but a pit where everyone inwards it precisely wants to displace equally 1 together with trammel together with precisely give themselves upwardly to the motility of the audience equally they seek to physically emulate the music. If anyone started to autumn 10 hands would select handle of them. We were non allowing whatever douchey shit.

Once those girls who were existence “protected” started to bring together in, their prickhead boyfriends were shamed into joining in, too. And therefore fifty-fifty 1 of the guys who threw a gulp inwards my human face upwardly was joining in. And therefore that same guy was crowd surfing. And therefore the band was crowd surfing. And someone passed them a flask (okay it was Dave, but don’t tell anyone). Someone else passed them a joint. If they tried to halt together with melody their instruments nosotros screamed at them to play out of tune. It was madness. Pure madness inwards the best sense possible. I knew it was amazing when I saw the unremarkably ho-hum people inwards VIP jumping the barrier to bring together us. And therefore the band really cranked it up. They really picked upwardly the unloose energy from us together with precisely gave it dorsum inwards spades.

Afterwards, completely soaked through amongst sweat (pants together with everything) I walked exterior together with faceplanted on the giant H2O ice pile. I’m pretty certain I melted through the entire thing, leaving a human-shaped hole inwards the middle of it. I was absolutely exhausted. I’ve never had to a greater extent than fun inwards a calendar week together with I may non receive got ever had to a greater extent than fun inwards a night. It was 1 of the most magical moments I recollect I volition ever experience – a identify total of people doing nil to a greater extent than than going wild to some awesome music. Later, the band tweeted at us for existence such a skillful audience.

You guys rock. Can’t hold off until adjacent year.

Forever yours,
Sean"
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