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“Remember: despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

Matt Kahn

Fair fights are the consequence of inadequate planning

questions for meaningful introductions
by saint clair
174 blocks • about 5 hours ago

And YES, the BEIGE-IFICATION of the home relates to nasty things, like “HOME AS COMMODITY FOR RESALE” (a.k.a. “OFFENSE”LESS), or “HOME AS PROJECTION OF HOW POLITE AND ‘SOCIETY’ WE ARE” (which is very suburban and still very Kardashian).

If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me.

A day before the invasion of Normandy, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a famous speech in which he told the troops, “The eyes of the world are upon you.”

Less known is an alternate speech Eisenhower wrote in case the invasion was unsuccessful. In what would later become one of the world's most coveted pieces of scrap paper, the general wrote, “My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air, and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”

“Both of us are very splashy vivid pictures, those kind with the details left out, but I know our colors will blend, and I think we’ll look swell hanging beside each other in the gallery of life.”

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"When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived"
- Henry David Thoreau

“I apologize for not responding to your e-mail sooner. One day all of us will have to convince ourselves we spent the gift of time on earth well.”