January 2011
22 posts
“”The chief cause of failure and unhappiness, is trading what we want and...”
needed this.
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar… and the coffee: A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began,wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was...
If a guy told me he'd catch a grenade for me:
dreamalittlelarger:
Why the fuck would anyone throw a grenade at me in the first place?
“Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down...”
– (Eating Animals), Jonathan Safran Foer
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something...”
– Frederick Koenig
When the test papers are returned, and..
professorflitwick:
you failed and you have the lowest score in class:
you failed but not as badly as you’d thought:
you failed but your friends didn’t do that well either:
you failed (or barely passed) and then someone says “THAT WAS THE EASIEST EXAM EVER”:
you passed:
you get the highest score in class:
your friend gets the highest score in class:
someone you don’t like...