February 2012
“Do good because it is good, not because it looks good.”
—Love this!
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake - its everything except what it is!”
—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (via basedonmind)
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
—Thomas Merton (via misswallflower)
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
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Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
ETERNALLY CO-SIGNED. I’ve known brilliant insightful people who never finished college, never finished high school, and even some that can’t read/write beyond signing their name. I’ve also known people with PhDs and ivy league degrees who are airheads that are really goddamn good at jumping through hoops.
(via bezdan)
“intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy” — YES what a great way to put it.
(via isabelthespy)
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
—(via her0inchic)
The secret to finding the perfect one is to be brave enough to let go of that very desire for perfection.
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”
—I Wrote This For You
Will study social interaction for food: Anonymous asked: I'm not sure if you have already answered this question a thousand times, but are there any jobs for an... →
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fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep:
I think I answered it once before, so I’ll put an answer up in the FAQ, but for now…
You say jobs for a sociologist? Sociologist is a job.
You possibly mean what jobs are there for a Sociology graduate? If so, as with any degree, you could take it in a…
“I’m not anti-love or anti-romance or anti-relationships. I’m against hollow gestures prescribed by people who are out to make money out of the holiday. I’m against constant reminders that couple equals normal and that anyone who isn’t in a relationship (or doesn’t want to be) is weird. I’m against anyone with a vested interest telling us how and when it’s appropriate to be affectionate - say it with roses, a diamond is forever, if you really loved her, you’d take her to Paris. I hate all those cutesy bears holding satin hearts saying ‘I wuv you snugglebum!’ - as if love can only be this childish, price-tagged, pukey thing.”
— Meg Pickard (via itsallfine)
“OK, yes it’s a mistake. I know it’s a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it’s a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say ‘yep, that was a mistake.’ So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake, because then you’d go your whole life not knowing if something is a mistake or not.”
—Lily (How I Met Your Mother)
“I learned several years ago never to mistake attention for affection.”
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John Mayer
(via lifeasadaydream)
“The first fruit of this imagination- and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it- is the idea that the individual can understand her own experience and gauge her own fate only by locating herself within her period, that she can know her own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in her circumstances. In many ways it is a terrible lesson; in many ways a magnificent one.”
—C. Wright Mills (The Sociological Imagination). (via underastarrynight)
“We may not like it, but it really is important to stop every once and awhile, get out of your own head, and see the bigger picture. Actually, finding out that you’ve been looking at things all wrong, can be sort of liberating. And suddenly, you see new potential, new possibilities, where you’ve never seen them before. And that’s all fine when a hopeless situation suddenly looks good. Unfortunately, sometimes it goes the other way.”
—Grey’s Anatomy
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”
—Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.”
—Riccardo Tisci (via dishevelment)
Sneakily glancing at someone your friend said is cute
Expectation:
Reality:
