Heidi Grant Halvorson, heidigranthalvorson.com
“Can you imagine how much less guilt, stress, and frustration you would feel if you could somehow just make yourself do the things you don’t want to do when you are actually supposed to do them? Not to mention how much happier and more effective you would be?”
Great advice for procrastinators like me. Read on.
Not a college woman, but yet another reason for avoiding facebook.
Study Links Frequent Facebook Use to Eating Disorders Among College Women | Mother Jones
We can’t unscramble eggs; but once scrambled, we can make a delicious omelette.
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
O TO part now, and, parting now,
Never to meet again;
To have done for ever, I and thou,
With joy, and so with pain.
It is too hard, too hard to meet
As friends, and love no more;
Those other meetings were too sweet
That went before.
And I would have, now love it over,
An end to all, an end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friend!
There’s something distinctly unfriendly in requiring people to participate in your chosen broadcast forum in order to participate in your life, rather than reaching out to them individually. It’s like that older aunt who sends out a form letter once a year to tell you all about that family vacation and their kids’ successful lives and the new car they bought, with the only personal touch being the signature at the end: she isn’t interested in you or your path through life, she’s just proudly announcing her own satisfaction at you. Which is great – I’m glad that people are happy and want to share that – but that’s not a friendship.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
“People who accomplished great things, … often combined a passion for a single mission with an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission, whatever the obstacles and however long it might take.”
The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent – 99U
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert.
Couldn’t decide which to post, so there you go …