Following Fitzgerald: The Iceberg: A Story by Zelda Fitzgerald
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Vivacious
Vivacious
means "full of life," it can be traced back to the Latin verb
"vivere," meaning "to live." The word was created around
the mid-17th century using the Latin adjective "vivax," meaning
"long-lived, vigorous, or high-spirited." Other descendants of
"vivere" in English include "survive," "revive,"
and "victual"—all of which came to life during the 15th century—and
"vivid" and "convivial," both of which surfaced around the
same time as "vivacious." Somewhat surprisingly, the word
"live" is not related; it comes to us from the Old English word
"libban."
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Your
success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller.
powerful your thoughts
If you realized how powerful your thoughts
are, you would never think a negative thought. PeacePilgrim
Charles Dickens: On this day in history in 1859, Charles Dickens pu...
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enormity
enormity \ih-NOR-muh-tee\
noun.
1: great wickedness
2: an outrageous or immoral act or offense
3 : very large size
4 : the quality of great impact or importance
Although "enormity" has been used since the late
1700s to denote large size, this usage continues to be disparaged by various
language commentators who argue that "enormity" should be reserved
for senses related to "great wickedness." It is
"enormousness," they insist (a hefty and considerably less common
word), that should be used in reference to great size, despite the fact that,
like "enormity," it too originally was used to denote wickedness or
divergence from accepted moral standards. For better or worse, this
proscription has been widely ignored by many English speakers, including
professional writers. However one chooses to use them, "enormity" and
"enormous" can both be traced back to the Latin "enormis,"
from the prefix "e-" ("out of") and "norma"
("rule," "pattern," or "carpenter's square").
We are what our thoughts have made us
We are what our thoughts have
made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts
live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
I have been sitting at this desk for hours
I have been sitting at this desk for hours, staring into the
darkened shelves of books. I love their presence, the way they honor the wood
they rest upon.
Richard Brautigan.
Karma Repair Kit
1.Get
enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.Find a
place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.Reduce
intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.
― Richard
Brautigan
My idea of the modern stoic sage
"My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking" Nassim Taleb
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