#tomorrow's quote will be from Infinite

[mcflymemes]

PROMPTS FROM SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS *  some of my favorite quotes from the show, adjust as necessary

his chops are too righteous!

it’s evil. it’s diabolical. it’s lemon scented!

lord knows i’ve tried.

two words. na. chos.

yeah, i get called that a lot.

it's just a cruel reminder that i'm single and likely to remain that way forever.

what doesn't kill you usually succeeds in the second attempt.

stupidity isn't a virus, but it sure is spreading like one.

goodbye everyone, i’ll remember you all in therapy.

don't you have to be stupid somewhere else?

i used to have a kidney stone. everything passes eventually.

you can't fool me. i listen to public radio!

stop it, [name], you're scaring him!

do instruments of torture count?

give to the children's fund? what have the children ever done for me?

this is not your average, everyday darkness. this is... advanced darkness.

what's better than serving up smiles?

i guess i'm not wearing any pants today.

did you smell it? that smell. a kind of smelly smell. the smelly smell that smells… smelly.

wake me up when i care.

look at all the hip, young people eating salads!

he was so ugly that everyone died.

the best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time!

well, the way i see it, there are three possibilites.

hibernation is the opposite of beauty sleep.

that’s it mister! you just lost your brain privileges!

good people don’t rip other people’s arms off.

well, we lost our car again.

pull your pants up. we’re going home.

you were right. fighting is for children.

i’m a good noodle!

remember, licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.

your ceiling is talking to me!

we don’t need television.

the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

i’ll have you know i stubbed my toe last week while watering my spice garden and i only cried for twenty minutes.

hey, if i close my eyes, it doesn’t seem so dark.

is mayonnaise an instrument?

those are some big words. i’ve never heard you use them before.

my vocabulary is infinitely expanding.

we destroyed your most prized possession.

we shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.

let’s see, a five letter word for happiness. money.

can i have everybody’s attention?

i have to use the bathroom.

do you know what day today is?

could you not stand so close? you’re making me claustrophobic.

i used your clarinet to unclog my toilet.

are they laughing at us?

if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

he needs us now more than ever.

what is today, but yesterday’s tomorrow?

ice is just a myth.

this working out thing isn’t working out.

i can’t see my forehead.

i have a good idea, and no one else thinks so.

look at you, so young and happy.

i prefer to be an idiot!

sounds like a pretty good deal to me, what do you say?

don’t be sad, buddy. turn that frown upside down!

i’m ugly and i’m proud!

good! say it louder!

i can’t do it! i can’t be away from my best friend!

i need you! i can’t handle this myself!

i’m just going on vacation for a few days.

i was kinda hoping that you come along with us…

enjoy the cake everybody!

now we never have to be apart, even when we’re not together.

this is great. see you forever!

i have to keep you safe while i get some work done!

maybe he doesn’t like us.

no, are you kidding?

i propose a toast to new friends!

i guess i’ll have to move in back with my mom and dad.

he’s a thief. look at the lust in his eye…

why can’t you just accept our friendship?

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[olenvasynyt]

Does Azriel have a hero complex?

So I think a lot of SJM characters have a hero complex (Rhys and Aelin especially) but I want to talk about Az specifically because I think it is an essential part of his character.  

Now since barely get any POVs with Az we do not really know the inner workings of his mind and almost everything that we know about him is from other characters’ perspectives.  So this is all based on my interpretation of him and his actions, and not every action he makes is a result of a hero complex.  And I also don’t have a psychology degree or anything like that this is just for fun and a savior complex is not something you can diagnose anyway.  This is just a character analysis!  It’s fun.

Saving people

The basic definition of a hero complex is the constant need to save people.  Most people think of the knight and damsel in distress when a hero complex is mentioned, and this is true with Az: he has rescued Mor and Elain and Gwyn.  And rescuing people is of course part of it, but it’s a lot more intricate than just that; there are tons of other tendencies someone with a savior complex can have, and I personally think Az has tons of these tendencies.

2. very perceptive and sympathetic

A person with a hero complex is very perceptive and sympathetic.  They’re usually drawn to people who’ve had a lot of trauma.  They have a lot of empathy for others who are suffering.  They’re good at knowing what a person needs.  

You see this when he teaches Feyre to fly: he offers his backstory on how he learned and his love for the Nephelle philosophy to sympathize with her and this is actually the first time we hear Az talk a bit about his own past.  He is very sympathetic and perspective with Elain.  In ACOWAR he’s very quiet and courteous with her and offers to take her to see the garden.

I really like this quote: 

Page 334 of ACOWAR: It made sense, I supposed, that Azriel alone had listened to her.  The male who heard things others could not…Perhaps he too had suffered as Elain before he understood what gift he possessed.

3. Doing the dirty but necessary work

A person with a hero complex does the dirty but necessary work that most people don’t want to do.  I would argue that being the court torture-master is doing the dirty work.  And Rhys’ father used him and his shadow abilities when he was alive and high lord, and he is part of Rhys’ inner circle so he is important and he votes on things, etc, but he still does the dirty work, he does the spying and the torturing.

Quote on page 175 of ACOMAF: “It’s hard to tell with him—and he’d never tell me.  I’ve witnessed Cassian rip apart opponents and then puke his guts up once the carnage stopped, sometimes mourn over them.  But Azriel…Cassian tries, I try…but I think the only person who ever gets him to admit his feelings is Mor.  And that’s only when his infinite patience runs out.”

Cassian says Rhys’ father ”kept [Az] for himself as his personal shadowsinger—mostly for spying and dirty work.” 

And you can’t really tell if as likes this work but it is important.  

In ACOMAF page 288:  ”Does he mind what he does?  Not the spying, I mean.  What he did to the Attor today.” ”It’s hard to tell with him—and he’d never tell me.  I’ve witnessed Cassian rip apart opponents and then puke his guts up once the carnage stopped, sometimes mourn over them.  But Azriel…Cassian tries, I try…but I think the only person who ever gets him to admit his feelings is Mor.  And that’s only when his infinite patience runs out.”

4. Dismissing their own needs/pain, neglecting self-care

And that sort of brings me to my next point: 

They dismiss their own needs and continue to help others even if it negatively impacts them.  Not only does he keep secrets about his past, but he doesn’t like when people worry about him.

ACOMAF page 288: ”Are you worried about Az going to the mortal lands tomorrow?”  ”Of course I am.  But Azriel has infiltrated places far more harrowing than a few mortal courts.  He’d find my worrying insulting.”

He works really hard and that’s another huge thing with a savior / hero complex.  He works himself so hard to the point where his friends worry for him.

Page 376 ACOMAF: ”Getting Azriel to take any time for himself that didn’t involve work or training was nearly impossible.”

He often wants to go into battle even when he was injured.

Quote from ACOWAR page 610:  ”The argument with Rhys this morning had been swift and brutal: Azriel insisted he could fly—fight with they legions….Rhys refused…Azriel threatened to slip into shadow and fight anyway.  Rhys merely said that if he so much as tried, he’d chain him to a tree…It was only when Mor had begged him that he relented.”

5. Emotional and psychological burnout

And all of this leads to burnout which is a huge thing with Az.  He’s obviously very broody, and he suppresses his feelings, works really hard doing very laborious and traumatizing things and this leads to burnout.  We have evidence of this from not only his broodiness and quietness,

Page 293 of ACOMAF: Az gets back from the mortal realm, he’s described as needing to “return and assess…assess—and brood, it seemed, since Azriel had barely managed a polite hello to me before launching into sparring with Rhysand, his face grim and tight.” Used sparring to ”help work off his frustration”.

but physically too with the headaches that he gets.

Page 186 of ACOFAS:  “I had Madja make it for me.  It’s a powder to mix in with any drink…it’s for the headaches everyone always gives you.  Since you rub your temples too often.”

6. Low self-esteem, need for perfection

He doesn’t think he’s good enough, he doesn’t think his work is enough, he doesn’t think his ’heroic actions’ are enough.  You can see this with his spies; he wants his spying to be perfect to help people and help his High Lord. 

Page 376 ACOMAF: —the frustration of not being able to get his spies or himself into those courts took a toll on him.  The standards to which he held himself, [Mor] confided in me, bordered on sadistic. 

(this also contributes to the fact that he pushes himself too hard)

ACOMAF 205-206, Rhys says  ”I don’t trust this information, even with your sources…”  ”They can be trusted,” Azriel said with quiet steel, his scarred hands clenching at his leather-clad sides.  ”We aren’t taking risks where this is concerned,” Rhys merely said.  He held Azriel’s stare, and I could almost hear the silent words Rhys added, It is no judgement or reflection on you, Az.  Not at all. But Azriel yielded no tinge of emotion as he nodded, his hands unfurling. ”So what do we have planned?” Mor cut in—perhaps for Az’s sake.

Everyone understands he has low self esteem.

Page 256 ACOMAF: ”He set down his fork, blinking.  I might even called him self-conscious.”

And in ACOWAR Rhys says he doesn’t think he’s good enough for Mor.

Page 460 of ACOWAR:  Feyre: ”But—he loves her.  How can he sit idly by?” Rhys: ”He thinks she’s happier without him…he thinks he’s unworthy of her.”

I go back and forth between if he thinks he’s deserving of Elain or not, because this quote says he isn’t worthy,

ACOSF bonus chapter: “She looked up at him, her face so trusting and hopeful and open that he knew she had no idea that he had done unspeakable things that sullied his hands far beyond their  scars.  Such terrible things that it was a sacrilege for his fingers to skin, tainting her with his presence.  But he could have this. This one moment, and maybe a taste, and that would be it.”

but another quote in the bonus chapter implies so does think he’s worthy but I’ll talk about that later.

7. Guilt and overthinking

Az seems to often feel guilty when one of the plans goes wrong; he thinks he didn’t do as much as he could have.

Page 346 of ACOWAR:  ”Hybern had made its grand move at last.  And we had not anticipated it.  I knew Azriel would take the blame upon himself.  One look at the shadowsinger…told me he already did.”

He may have felt guilty for not reaching Cassian in time when he was gutted fighting that Hybern commander in ACOWAR

Page 543 of ACOWAR:  ”’By the time Az got there, he was down.’ Azriel’s face was stone-cold, even as his hazel eyes fixed unrelentingly upon that knitting wound.”

He might feel guilty for not helping Mor enough with Az, and he also feels guilty for keeping Rhys’ plan to let Keir into Velaris a secret.

Page 414 of ACOWAR:  "Whether [Mor] knew that though she’d tried to move past the bargain we’d made, the guilt of it still haunted Azriel, she didn’t let on.”

And when Eris calls More a slut, Az attacks him violently and Feyre has to call him off.  And I think this was a telling sign of his guilt:  

Page 429 of ACOWAR: 

”As Azriel turned his face toward me—The frozen rage rooted me to the spot.  But beneath it, I could almost see the images that haunted him: the hand Mor had yanked away, her weeping, distraught face as she had screamed at Rhys.”

He defends people to make up for his guilt, which sort of brings me to my next point:

8. Issues with overstepping boundaries and self-efficacy

I’m not talking about him kissing Elain in the bonus chapter and overstepping the boundaries of her mating bond with Lucien.  I’m talking about how a person with a hero complex oversteps and takes on other people’s responsibilities/problems.  With self-efficacy, a person with a hero complex might unintentionally undermine someone’s self-efficacy by not allowing them to face and overcome challenges on their own.

And he doesn’t do this all the time. In fact there are situations, specifically emotional situations that don’t pertain to him, that he walks away from and he goes ” That’s not my business.”

But you see this with Mor a lot, he is super defensive for Mor: when Eris calls her a slut during the High Lord’s meeting, he attacks him and chokes him out.  He jumps to her defense all the time even when she doesn’t ask for it.

He also refuses Elain’s offer to look for the Trove in ACOSF:

Page 311 of ACOSF: “We do not have the time to wait for Nesta to decide.  I say we approach Elain tomorrow.  Better to have both of them working on it.” Azriel stiffened, an outright sign of temper from him as he said quietly, “There is an innate darkness to the Dread Trove that Elain should not be exposed to.”

9. Fear of abandonment and rejection

And all of this pertaining to the hero complex, including overstepping boundaries, continuously helping, etc can be because of their fear of rejection.  A person with a savior complex fears being alone so they continuously help others to ensure their relationship continues.

Az actually tried to bring up his feelings for Mor after he rescues her from the Autumn court border and she leaves (talk about bad timing AZ) but I feel like Az hasn’t brought up his love for Mor because he fears rejection and also because of his low self-esteem.

Mor often has an argument with Rhys and he turns to Az to defend her and often he’s hesitant.  

Page 186 of ACOWAR:  Mor whipped her head to Azriel.  ”What do you think?”  The shadowsinger held her stare, his face unreadable.  Considering.  I tried not to hold my breath.  Defending the female he loved or siding with his High Lord…”It’s not my call to make.” ”That’s a bullshit answer,” Mor challenged.   ”I could have sworn hurt flickered in Azriel’s eyes, but he only shrugged.

You see this with his guilt that I brought up before with not doing enough to stop Hybern from attacking in ACOWAR, and his guilt over not telling Mor about their plan with Kier and Eris and letting Keir have access to Velaris.  

And this is an excellent quote:

Page 460 of ACOWAR:  ”There will come a day when Azriel has to decide if he is going to fight for her or let her go.  And it won’t be because some other male insults her or beds her.”

And he probably fears rejection from Elain.

10. A need for validation

Now another tendency a person with a savor complex can have is the need for validation, they want acknowledgment for the good things they’ve done, and this can lead to resentment if they are acknowledged.

And I don’t necessarily think this is Az, I feel like he would just say that helping is his job, being spymaster is his job, saving people is his job” but you can see in the bonus chapter of Silver Flames when Rhys asks him if he thinks he deserves Elain as a mate, he says ”I don’t think Lucien will be good enough for him” which in my opinion implies that Az thinks he is more heroic / more worthy of having Elain as a mate and sees Lucien as a coward.

ACOSF bonus chapter: “The Cauldron chose three sisters. Tell me how it's possible that my two brothers are with two of those sisters, yet the third was given to another.” “You believe you deserve to be her mate?"   “I think Lucien will never be good enough for her…”

There are obviously tons of other aspects of a hero complex beside a knight rescuing a damsel that I think apply to Az; he is a super traumatized and I think his hero complex / heroism in general is a result of that.

#acotar #azriel shadowsinger #tiktok video summary #character analysis #mor acotar #elain archeron #rhysand #a court of thorns and roses

[pluviisopibus]

Fourth Wing Ask Meme (Part 1)

An assortment of quotes from Rebecca Yarros' novel "FOURTH WING." Some phrases have been altered for the sake of clarity for this purpose.

There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you.

Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing.

I would rather lose this entire war than live without you.

If that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I'll do it.

You gave me your heart, and I'm keeping it.

Fascinating.

You look all frail and breakable.

You're really a violent little thing, aren't you?

I'm going to keep you. You're mine.

I've been yours for longer than you could ever imagine.

Oh, gods.

Which one are you calling out for?

It's just you and me in here, [NAME].

I don't share.

I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been.

I am infinite.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

There's nothing more sacred than the archives.

Temples can be rebuilt.

I will not run.

I will not die today.

I wouldn't be standing here if I'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome.

The right way isn't the only way.

You are not attracted to toxic men.

Yet here I am, getting all attracted.

None of this is worth it without you.

Don't borrow tomorrow's trouble.

You're making us look bad. Stop it.

#rp meme #rp memes #ask memes #inbox memes #ask meme #inbox meme #sentence starter #sentence starters #rp starters #rp starter #fourth wing

[escarlatafox]

"Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion." - Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera died a few days ago. May he rest in kitsch... So, I've compiled a list of ten quotes of his that I find resonant/poignant from two of his books (The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) under the cut, along with a poll. If you'd like, you can give 'em a read, and vote on which quote you like (/which stands out to you) the most!

I've numbered the quotes to make it easier to vote in the poll! The poll cites condensed versions so they fit :P

1. In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

2. Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

3. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs.

4. What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.

5. Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind’s fateful inexperience. History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

6. The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

7. It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.

8. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

9. In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

10. The two sisters stretched out on their bed are not laughing about anything in particular, their laughter has no object, it is the expression of being rejoicing in being. Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and without desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.

#Milan Kundera #The Unbearable Lightness of Being #The Book of Laughter and Forgetting #Some of these obviously are like. better understood with context #While others stand just fine on their own #but. I think all of them do decently enough on their own #It's purely that some of the Nuance goes missing with some of them i.e. the laughter quote #when you don't know like. the overall tapestry it's weaving etc etc lol #Anyway please have a look at these quotes if u are curious!! :)

[purityran]

Five Songs For My Muse.

Besides all the glamour, all we got was bruised But through all the sorrow, we've been riding high And the truth of the matter is I never let you go Mary On A Cross - Ghost And there's no mystical design; no cosmic lover preassigned There's nothing you can find that can not be found 'Cause with all the changes you've been through, It seems the stranger's always you Wicked Little Town - Hedwig & The Angry Inch It’s my own design, it’s my own remorse Help me to decide, help me make the Most of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody Wants to Rule The World - Tears for Fears Drift away further each day, Towards a different path Leave behind the past Where did you go? Friends - Vacations If I don't sleep I'll never dream If I could beg, would you do it for me? Outside your house, down on my knees Swollen with doubt and animosity Mercy - Sir Chloe

Five Quotes For My Muse.

❝ Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. ❞ - Richard Siken ❝ He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand. ❞  - Richard Siken ❝ She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars. ❞  - Neil Gaiman ❝ She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here. ❞  - Neil Gaiman ❝ Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. ❞ - Bill Cunningham

tagged by: I STOLE IT FROM THE DASH !

tagging: @coastercrushed @dcmur3 @painmon @feelsinister and YOU!

#it was just for fools. (dash games.)

[natromanxoff]

Daily Express - April 22, 1992

Credits to Roberto Macchi.

[Photo caption: CUDDLING: Paul Young and wife Stacy]

[ADMIRING: Brian May and Liza Minnelli]

Women who sparkle like Mercury

THE LADS may have been the stars of the show at the Freddie Mercury Wembley tribute. But it was the girls who glittered at the lavish party at Browns nightclub later. Flake advert girl Debbie Leng, long-standing girlfriend of Queen's Roger Taylor, topped the fashion stakes in clinging catsuit and elaborate necklace. And Paula Yates showed her husband Bob Geldof it's possible to be colourful without wearing the sofa covers. Model Stacy Smith, wife of Paul Young, was in sparkling form, and superstar Liza Minnelli found that Queen guitarist Brian May — accompanied by former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson — is one of her greatest fans.

[Photo caption: SPARKLING: Debbie Leng in catsuit and necklace]

[Photo caption: CLASHING: Chic Paula Yates and Bob Geldof]

[MRS LINDA JAMES A picture on Page 3 of yesterday's Daily Express was incorrectly captioned as Mary Austin. It was, in fact, of Mrs Linda James, who attended the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. We apologise for any embarrassment.]

[Pictures by RICHARD YOUNG • JILL PARKIN]

~~

First Lady of AIDS

Taylor takes on a new role

LIZ TAYLOR touched down at the airport looking slim and sensational at 60. The caption writers reached for the "age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety” quote from her most famous role — Cleopatra.

What is it that's brought the smile back to the Queen of the Nile? Putting it straight: AIDS. Her flagging reputation has been given the kiss of life by the virus.

There she was on Monday night in front of an audience of 72,000 for the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, giving the hammiest performance of a hammy career.

She all but went into a Bohemian Rhapsody about condoms and generally urged the youth of today to encase itself in rubber and not share needles.

"Protect yourselves," she pleaded with tremulous voice and quivering lip. "The world needs you to live.

Arguable, if the evidence of several hours of Def Leppard and all the other sound-alikes these 72,000 paid to hear were anything to go by.

“You are the best and brightest, the shining light that will illuminate a better world tomorrow…" Good grief, let's hope she didn't pay a scriptwriter for that.

Close at hand was Larry Fortensky, her seventh husband but her first from the construction industry, who now escorts her round the AIDS charity circuit on both sides of the Atlantic.

And what a party it has been for Liz ‘n’ Larry so far. Thank goodness she picked an exceptionally enlightened brickie, not one likely to share an anti-gay joke over the hod with his mates.

AIDS has given Liz a whole new starring role. After all, it has been a long time since Cleopatra.

Who said not long enough? Unlike the dewy eye, the parts dried up long ago.

Liz was forced to star in her own drama of drink, men and self-destruction. All very well, but costly in terms of drying-out fees.

And being pushed about various airports, bloated and wedged into a wheelchair, must have been losing its novelty as a photo-opportunity.

She had tried the last refuge of a Hollywood legend — bringing out your own scent and touting it round the promotional counters — when she was saved by the arrival of the incurable disease of the late 20th Century.

AND not just any old disease, but a high-profile one with a heavy presence on America's West Coast, handy for her Bel Air home. Thousands of victims in Africa but, more importantly from the PR point of view, a few glamorous names nearer to hand.

But in the case of Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS last November, is glamour a big enough word? Should we be talking greatness here?

One of his few profundities not set to music was: "New York is Sin City. I just slut myself. My sex drive is enormous. I've got a big bed and it can sleep six."

Another shining light, eh?

Still, it has all been great PR for Liz, whose Tinseltown tiara was beginning to tarnish.

Now she's the First Lady of AIDS and she may soon be more famous for that than for getting married. And how well she looks on it.

Every cloud, as they say, has a silver lining for someone.

[Photo caption: EXIT: Liz leaving London last night with granddaughter Naomi and Larry / Picture: Dennis Stone]

#queen #queen band #freddie mercury #brian may #queen scans #daily express april 1992 #paul young #liza minnelli #debbie leng #bob geldof #paula yates #elizabeth taylor

[orpheus-but-gay]

Quotes from Les Miserables

I’ve finally finished the behemoth that is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, I wanted to share some of my favorite quotes:

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that you are loved, loved for yourself, better still, loved despite yourself.”

“What could be more melancholy and profound than seeing a thousand objects for the first and last time? To travel is to be born and die at every instant.”

“An army is a strangely contrived masterpiece by which force results from an enormous amount of powerlessness. This is the explanation of war, waged by humanity against humanity despite humanity.”

“A sublime and sweet thing is hope in a child who has never known anything but despair.”

“Anyone who has ever loved  knows the full glorious implications contained in the three  letters of that word: She.”

“What did they do in this hellish tomb? What can be done in a tomb - they suffered agonies; and what can be done in hell - they sang. For where there is no further hope, there is still singing.”

“Two lovers seclude themselves in the evening, in the twilight, where they cannot be seen, with the birds and the roses; they bewitch each other in the darkness, their hearts in their eyes, they murmur, they whisper, while the vast movements of stars fill the infinite.”

“There are moments when, like a mournful goddess, a woman accepts with resignation the religion of love.”

“Whatever today might be, tomorrow brings peace.”

“What, then, is progress? We have just said what it is. The enduring life of peoples.”

“To love, or to have loved, is enough. Ask for nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in life’s shadowy convolutions. To love is an achievement.”

#quotes #Les Miserables #victor hugo #books #classic lit #classic lit quotes #les mis

[plutom3lon]

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[name || source || tag || quote || who i’m looking for || (other)]

shota aizawa/eraserhead || boku no hero academia || #SA - 💤 || “there’s nothing crueler than letting a dream end midway.” || hizashi yamada/present mic, oboro shirakumo/loud cloud, nemuri kayama/midnight, toshinori yagi/all might, eri, and hitoshi shinsou. any of my other students are also welcome

hizashi yamada/present mic || boku no hero academia || #HY - 🎤 || “going the battler route? i have a hard time picturing it.” || same as above, minus hizashi, plus shota

hubris nestoris || songs of war || #HN - 🍋 || “in this war, it was you who turned the tides.” || any members of the knights of ardonia, particularly grek and senn, but again, any sourcemates are cool || (yes i kin a minecraft man deal with it)

reki kyan || sk8 the infinity/sk∞ || #RK - ☀️ || “no one knows the answer to the meaning of happiness.” || langa and miya in particular, but like all the previous ones, all sourcemates are cool with me

langa hasegawa || sk8 the infinity/sk∞ || #LH - ❄️ || “i wanna infinitely skate together with you!” || all sourcemates

ryomen sukuna || jujutsu kaisen || #RS - ⚡ || “know your place, fool.” || any & all sourcemates are welcome to interact

kai || bubble || #K - 🫧 || “with our blue blazes, we’re gonna burn it all down!” || looking for all of team blue blazes (ie hibiki, uta, isozaki, usagi, osawa, shin & makoto). other teams are welcome to interact too

pip fitz-amobi || a good girl’s guide to murder || #PFA - 🔎 || “i’m not sure i’m the good girl i once thought i was. i’ve lost her along the way.” || i’d love to meet any ravis! cara & naomi as well. any elliots dni

love thorsdottir || mcu (thor : love and thunder) || #LT - 🫶 || mainly looking for gorr, thor and loki :)

kusuo saiki || the disastrous life of saiki k. || #KS - 🍮 || “good grief. ordinary people sure are a pain.” || mostly looking for my parents and brother (kuniharu, kurumi and kusuke) riki nendou, shun kaidou, reita toritsuka, aren kuboyasu and mikoto aiura.

inosuke hashibira || kimetsu no yaiba || #IS - ⚔️ || “if there ain’t no hell, i’ll goddamn make one for you.” || i’d like to meet anyone from the kamaboko squad & any of the pillars. other sourcemates are welcome too.

jiji || kiki’s delivery service || #JJ - 🍁 || “…if you wake up tomorrow and find a white cat, that’s me.” || looking for anyone really

luna || sailor moon || #L - 🌙 || “you can’t keep depending on others.” || mainly looking for the inner & outer senshi and artemis

keisuke suga || weathering with you || #KS - 🌦️ || “the world’s crazy. always has been, always will be.” || hodaka morishima, hina & nagi amano, moka, asuka & natsumi suga

osamu dazai || bungo stray dogs || #OD - ⛓️ || “justice is a weapon. it can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.” || anyone from the ada, chuuya nakahara, ango sakaguchi, and sakunosuke oda

chuuya nakahara || bungo stray dogs || #CN - 🗝️ || tba

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kinsidering

kaina tsutsumi/lady nagant || boku no hero academia

keigo takami/hawks || boku no hero academia

viktor || arcane

brom holcombsson || eragon (book ver.)

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separate posts will be made for my timelines too

last updated: 28/01/2023

#my stuff #kinlist #SA - 💤 #HY - 🎤 #HN - 🍋 #RK - ☀️ #LH - ❄️ #RS - ⚡ #K - 🫧 #PFA - 🔎 #LT - 🫶 #KS - 🍮 #IH - ⚔️ #JJ - 🍁 #L - 🌙 #KS - 🌦️ #OD - ⛓️ #CN - 🗝️

[yunmew]

今年は何より、社会に戻り沢山のことを学ばせる職場を頂いたことに深く感謝しています🙏🙇

辛い、辛い、辛いですけど、沢山の経験を身につけて、沢山のことを乗り越えていきます😊

(今年素敵な友達もできて、本当に本���に感謝しています😭🙏)

Best of 2022 for me (that I can remember 😂)

I didn't watch everything, I didn't follow everything, I didn't listen to everything, but I still enjoyed many things this year 😊

Best album of 2022

Utada Hikaru - Bad Mode✨

SEVENTEEN - Sector 17 repackage

Best songs of 2022

Telex Telexs - EVERYTHING (I first heard them in 2020, but for some reason I didn't really listen to them until now 😭)

Utada Hikaru - 気分じゃないの

Tomorrow X Together - Thursday's Child has far to go

Ray - Fading Lights (English ver.)

SEVENTEEN - Don Quixote

SEVENTEEN - Shadow

QUEEN BEE - 夜曲 (2022 ver.)

Nanon Korapat - Our Song

The Boyz - Last Man Standing

Onew - Love Phobia

Tilly Birds - Just Being Friendly (I know it's not 2022 but)

Honorary mention: Xdinary Heroes' cover of Drown by BMTH

Honorary mention: PP Krit - I'll Do It How You Like it (BECAUSE WHO IN THE WORLD HAS DONE WHAT HE IS DOING)

This year's concerts

Herbie Hancock!!! 😭

Seventeen 😭💙💗💎💗💙

Sting 😭😭

Milton Nascimento 😭😭😭🙏

Also saw BTS live online this year lol

Best shows that started and ended in 2022 😭 why am I doing this to myself (not necessarily the best shows ever, but I really enjoyed them. Enjoyed many others too.)

高良くんと天城くん 😭❤️

永遠の昨日 😭😭😭❤️

Cupid's Last Wish ❤️

Khun Chai 😭😭❤️

KP (I know🤦)

Love Mechanics

The Eclipse

(obviously bad buddy and not me had some of the best moments in a show that I watched in 2022. Also reeeally loving between us and I know I will like never let me go)

Best movie watched

Everything Everywhere All at Once!!!

自分を救われた言葉/Words that moved me

「好きなモノを愛せ!!!!! 忘れるな! お前の人生はお前の為のもの!!!」 ("Love the things that you love!!!! Never forget, your life is for yourself!!!") - Takuya∞ in EN by UVERworld 😭😭😭

"This is how I fight." - Everything Everywhere All at Once 😭

「黙り相手でもいい」 ("I can be your silent partner then.") - 永遠の昨日 (Eternal Yesterday)

「なんでこんな女なんなやろうって思ってた。けど今分かった。このためやったんやって。初めて『女』の意味あったんやって。」 ("I always wondered why I was this kind of woman. But now I understand. This is why. For the first time, being a woman has meaning to me.") - More Than Words

"Every child has different personalities. Their silence doesn't mean that they don't feel stressed or pressured. Don't forget, your expectations or good wishes alone are forms of pressure. From what you've told me, if your child has never expressed his own opinions, it means that he has carried this stress for a long time." - My Gear and Your Gown (I KNOW 👀)

"It's because you raised me this way that I'm not like other kids." - Bad Buddy 😭

Best lines/quotes

"That is what keeps me alive, and you are too." - Not Me

"You won't be mean to me too, will you?" - The Eclipse

"My left hand must be the happiest left hand in the world" - Takara-kun and Amagi-kun 😭

"Why do I have to look at Hia on TV when the real Hia is by my side?" - NuNew 😂😂😂

「おめーらのチャンネルでbintroll全員集まんねえくせに俺のチャンネルで集まるんじゃねぇよ！」 ("You bintroll guys are never all together on your channel, don't you all get together on mine!") - Hana-chan 🤣🤣🤣

"tumblr made a movie is infinitely more believable than the kinnporsche origin story" seriously 🤣🤣🤣

Best new thing I read in 2022

Raising a Big Cat in the Apocalypse (waited 2 years, it was so good 😭 the extreme violent zombie apocalypse mutated plants and animals war thing was really rough though😭)

Best tea of 2022 🤣🤣

Oolong ❤️

Reuniting with the Kirkland Ito En green tea 😭

Passion fruit yuzu cha

Best experience of 2022

Chicago November 11-November 13 🙏

Other most important days of 2022 (for me)

January 31, 2022

July 14, 2022 🙏🙏🙏

November 6, 2022 😭

December 11, 2022 🌄

Other best moments of 2022😄

Ace Base Face Voice Chase being completed 😭

BIGBANG reunion😭

KARA reunion (2-0-2-2!! 😭)

Jirai-chan and Quartet-san meeting for the first time 😭🚅🚅🚅

Siruko-san, 18-san, Jirai-chan, and Quartet-san all meeting in person 😭😭😭

Taka and Hiro performing together 😭

Yuta and Hyde hanging out???

GMM kids meeting Yoshiki?? 😂

Seventeen in DC!! 😭

Among others 😂

Most difficult experiences of 2022

Readapting to this sucky society, Haiti, and my colleague's passing 😔 In addition to all the other horrible, horrible, horrible news we received this year

Bye 2022👋

#I'm sure I've forgotten a lot 😅 #“素直になりたい”👍“皮を破る” “自分の個性を輝かせ” #好きなモノを愛せ!!!!!!!!!! #好きなモノを愛せ basically became my motto for this year 😭😭😭

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary184

3/17-18/2024

sunday - monday

off tomorrow.

and my gf gets off but i need to go to bed early cuz i work 9 am tuesday. but that's okay cuz she's in a similar position i think, because of her thesis defense. i hope that goes okay. it's worrying a little i guess, thinking now, because doesn't our future depend on that a bit? how strange things are arranged, why is it our lives can come down to such small things in the hands of others, others who must assume things are not so dire, to remain sane. precarity has to be ignored as much as it must be invoked to keep us in line. this falls into the reading today.

mostly he began getting into discipline, which almost made me cry, the observation of the little things, tiniest details of our selves, details of the goings on of society/sociality, what is ongoing, at molecular scale. he quote napoleon's desire and need to know all the goings on, the little things. a quote:

"a meticulous observation of detail, and at the same time a political awareness of these small things (small events, habits, small tasks which build in greatness, the routine, and more), for the control and use of men, emerge through the classical age bearing with them a whole set of techniques, a whole corpus of methods and knowledge, descriptions, plans, and data. and from such trifles, no doubt, the man of modern humanism was born."

and prior to this a whole quoting of jean baptiste de la salle, about the necessity of these reflections on the minute and everyday. foucault adds to this:

"the meticulousness of the regulations, the fussiness of the inspections, the supervision of the smallest fragment of life and of the body will soon provide, in the context of the school, the barracks, the hospital or the workshop, a laicized content, an economic or technical rationality for this mystical calculus of the infinitesimal and the infinite."

laicized is a very good word, it means secularized roughly. meaning that the domain of the infinite, and of the soul, of self reflection, the domain of isolation in the prison and the necessity of individuation and creation of the humanist subject who acts rationally, and must be responded to rationally, and so on, is now beyond god, even. god is dead, it becomes domain and rule of not a sovereign but instead power multiplied and invisible by its facets and technologies. interesting and terrifying.

i will take issue with something i said the other day, i described the law as naturing itself, and its responses not being 'reactions' although i feel like exactly what i described essentially would be a reaction, but i won't cede that there is nuance to how it behaves. it is by being a reaction though, that it takes on a natural character perhaps. but it s a reaction of trees to wind, one supposes or feels, though its character as a force and what it really produces is a reactionary and fascistic pulsion.

the reason this reading made me feel so bad, or sad, i guess, was just the sense of pain, in part, seeing people approach the little things with wonder, trying to examine and appreciate, it is sad, i guess i see myself there. the little things not being 'little pleasures' or some other sentimentalism but incremental work, that kind of thing, productivity which mounts, tiny pieces of progress, i don't think the point is to argue against such things, it doesn't feel that way, but instead what foments this examination of one's details and the details of what surrounds us and how they work ultimately, again, a fussiness of supervision, management, essentially, predicted here is the necessity / arrival of the hall monitor world we are currently in, and the ways surveillance has eclipsed the control society. nothing is ever lost or shed, the sovereign is still inside of our bodies, as is the chain of ideology which limits and potentiates, modulates, our drives and how to utilize them, even the question/quest to utilize, mobilize, and in what order, how our limbs ought to move, what repetitions, measurements of time, this kind of thing. the world is secularized but it keeps these spiritual pulsions which manage/produce an economically desirable outcome. the guilty worker who is slow, confess in apology to your boss, admit to the officer, and on and on.

it's interesting how he gets to the barracks, the military, and schools. it's crazy that every chapter of this book gets better and better.

he says some other interesting things, one is that discipline, this is obvious i suppose, and something you may feel but not articulate as well as he, it is how i felt reading it, that discipline increases the effectiveness of body (and likely, eventually, intent, in historical record (or perhaps not later, it is about repetition not of just tasks but also of moral rights, in the case of prisons)), in labor, in all submissions, but it also decreases resistance, an increase in aptitude for labor, an aptitude to listen, an aptitude for force, but the force cannot go in the other direction, it is strictly guided, even when hands are not on the body, when there is no chain, a discipline of posture, this kind of thing.

another interesting thing is the three stages he has gone through, as he gets to the birth of prisons proper, now at the stage of the barracks and their intermingling with schools and hospitals as staging grounds for many of the ideas that would be used in prison, and also matrices of information collection, even factory towns are talked of here, of management and data, the minute and the way it enables individualization and attendance to these individuals, it's interesting to follow his question of how this became the prevailing system, beyond the sovereign and then the representational punishments which sought to show all, but not as spectacles, but instead images to haunt, to show the strength of law as natural response, the reformer's dreams to illustrate constantly the fates of traitors, in chain gangs laboring, things of that nature.

the reading has me thinking, or maybe thinking against the regular assumptions re: management and so on, or to greater depths what the meaning of say, where i work is, what the building itself it means, its construction, could be a starting point, an interesting thing to tease out, there are essentially 3 layers to it, the first layer is the forward facing interior, and then, the areas where the workers dwell and customers do not belong, where food is made and where trash is taken, where stock is held, many workers only spend time in these regions. the third layer is a threshold region where it seems maybe only cleaners and technicians really dwell, they are never meant to be forward facing, and their states do not really matter, these regions are only traveled by the regular workers to take trash out, each of these 3 zones is in different state of decoration, evidently, and cleanliness, evidently, but the third layer is shocking as it expresses the bare minimum of what a building needs and the cheapness, as bare as where cooks and the breakroom is, that is essentially habitable, but all a building needs is to really be an enclosure, this stripping of 'appeal' to simply comprising, or showing, the four walls that we are inside of, and that this is a place where people are situated, the people outside of our view frequently, has unpleasant implications. it is necessary for some to traverse these guts, and these are for some reason, people for whom it is desirable to management to keep farther from us. the technicians do come out, and speak with us, but the cleaners, who seem to never really interact with us, and who only come out very late, it seems evidently classist, basically. not that it is anyone's fault, anyone who works there at least. it is not a decision made, it's a cluster of assumptions that carry themselves and repeat ad infinitum, this is the fact of much of las vegas, and i imagine most entertainment complexes such as this. however, the various ways workers are distanced, and the workers that are distanced, it's interesting to see. the arcade workers tend to be, it seems, youthful, is maybe the word i'd use, youthful, energetic, whatever. i am not energetic but i guess i make up for that in something, or i am not sure. it is frequently older people working in dining + buffet, this tracks for lots of reasons but it is interesting to think of who goes where in the anatomy of this building and that it ultimately produces something which 'works', it is repeatable daily and does not collapse. even under stress. but ultimately what is interesting is the architecture and the systems that organize us. there is a lot there but i can't be sure of my returning to this, it just feels helpful as a kind of act, like bouncing a ball off of a wall to think, to better internalize my reading.

anyway. i am gonna practice this song a couple times i think, and then sleep after, but i'll report back between those things.

okay , i ran thru the song like 3 times, it's short so that's not too long on it but that's good. i think i can get something out tomorrow for it, and then maybe get onto doing things for other songs? we shall see.

anyway, i am tired, i need to sleep good tomorrow soooo

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yhwhrulz]

Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for January 4

Tozer in the Morning Let Us Draw Near Today

Today is our day. No one at any time has ever had any spiritual graces that we at this time cannot enjoy if we will meet the terms on which they are given. If these times are morally darker, they but provide a background against which we can shine the brighter. Our God is the God of today as well as of yesterday, and we may be sure that wherever our tomorrows may carry us, our faithful God will be with us as He was with Abraham and David and Paul. Those great men did not need us then, and we cannot have them with us now. Amen. So be it. And God be praised. We cannot have them, but we can have that which is infinitely better--we can have their God and Father, and we can have their Savior, and we can have the same blessed Holy Spirit that made them great.

Tozer in the Evening Three Degrees of Knowledge

In a recent letter a man from Jamestown, NY, quoted a statement from an editorial, ?Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge,? . . . and asked for clarification.

The quotation was taken from that part of the editorial dealing with the third degree of knowledge: ?. . . it is knowledge by direct spiritual experience . . . Since it was not acquired by reason operating on intellectual data, the possibility of error is eliminated.?

The letter comments on this as follows: ?This statement seems to me to parallel the Roman Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility. I was always taught that the holy Scriptures are the only rule of faith and life. My observation has been that most of the false cults base their so-called doctrines and revelations on personal spiritual experience. I would appreciate your further clarification on this editorial statement . . . defining the boundaries with which `direct spiritual experience? can be depended upon without danger of departure from the revealed Word of God as contained in the holy Scriptures and as projected in the earthly life of Christ.?

This matter deserves further explanation and I?ll be glad to make it.

In my editorial I said that there are three degrees of knowledge open to Christians. The first is the common knowledge shared with all normal persons, namely, the data furnished by the senses and by reason operating upon such data. This embraces all knowledge of natural things from the first scrap of knowledge enjoyed by an hour-old baby to the highest reaches of scientific information acquired by the pooled efforts of the race.

The second is the knowledge received by faith. It consists of data given by divine revelation and received by the believing mind without proof. It is taken on trust and cannot in the very nature of it be demonstrated as being true. Were proof possible then it would belong in the first category and faith would be unnecessary.

The third kind of knowledge is that given by direct spiritual experience. This differs radically from both of the others. It has nothing to do with the senses and so is not physical or natural data. It has nothing to do with ethics or doctrine and so is not moral or theological knowledge. I do not believe that God teaches doctrine by direct unmediated experience. The exact opposite is true. The Scriptures are the source of all rational knowledge about moral and religious things, except those things that are revealed by nature as mentioned in Psalms 19:1-4 and Romans 1:19-20, and they are few and inadequate.

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[dan6085]

50 Great Quotes of all time:

1. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

2. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

3. "The only constant in life is change." - Heraclitus

4. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

7. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

8. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

9. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

10. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

11. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - Allen Sanders

12. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

13. "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

14. "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injustice." - Marcus Aurelius

15. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

16. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

17. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

18. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

19. "The more I see, the less I know for sure." - John Lennon

20. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary

21. "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

22. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu

23. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

24. "We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese

25. "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

26. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

27. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

28. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

29. "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

30. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston S. Churchill

31. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

32. "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

33. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

35. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama

36. "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt

37. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

39. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain

40. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle Onassis

41. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

43. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

44. "What we think, we become." - Buddha

45. "The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra

46. "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato

47. "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy

48. "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa

49. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

50. "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi

[daimonclub]

Health & Wellness

Health & wellness news Health & wellness, a page that describes the different aspects of wellness and health, with quotes and links to specific resources and news on the matter. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960, American journalist, humorist) Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. Isaac Bickerstaffe In 2015, the population of the United States (U.S.) spent an estimated $3.2 trillion on healthcare costs. However, despite this expenditure, a study by the U.S. National Research Council, published in 2013, showed that Americans die at a younger age and experience more illness and injury than people in other developed countries. Internet news The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually. Greg Anderson As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867, French poet) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. Harry J. Johnson (American medical doctor) Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung No time for your health today, will result in no health for your time tomorrow. Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin) Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature - if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you - know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist) Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased, if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness, if health is wanting. Ellen Gould White What is health and how to keep it in a good balance. The word "health" refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. Healthcare exists to help people maintain this optimal state of health. Good health is central to handling stress and living a long and active life. In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health with a phrase that is still used today. "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." WHO, 1948. In 1986, the WHO further clarified that health is: "A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities."

Health and preventive care medicine Health can be defined as physical, mental, and social wellbeing, and as a resource for living a full life. It refers not only to the absence of disease, but the ability to recover and bounce back from illness and other problems. Factors for good health include genetics, the environment, relationships, and education. A healthful diet, exercise, screening for diseases, and coping strategies can all enhance a person's health. This means that health is a resource to support an individual's function in wider society. A healthful lifestyle provides the means to lead a full life. Nowadays health can also be considered as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities, and that means to be aware that modern science has increased human knowledge of diseases and how they work. Physical wellbeing involves pursuing a healthful lifestyle to decrease the risk of disease. Maintaining physical fitness, for example, can protect and develop the endurance of a person's breathing and heart function, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition. Physical health and well-being also help reduce the risk of an injury or health issue. Examples include minimizing hazards in the workplace, practicing safe sex, practicing good hygiene, or avoiding the use of tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs. Mental health refers to a person's emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing. It is as important as physical health to a full, active lifestyle. It is not only the absence of depression, anxiety, or another disorder, but it also depends on the ability to enjoy life, bounce back after difficult experiences, achieve balance, adapt to adversity, feel safe and secure, achieve your potential. Physical and mental health are obviously linked. If chronic illness affects a person's ability to complete their regular tasks, this may lead to depression and stress, for example, due to money problems. It is important to approach "health" as a whole, that is through a holistic approach. Health should be a good investment, not a bad expenditure. Carl William Brown Health depends on a wide range of factors. People are born with a different mixed range of genes, and in some of them, an unusual genetic pattern can lead to a weak level of health. Environmental factors then play a role. Sometimes the environment alone is enough to impact health. Other times, an environmental trigger can cause illness in a person who is genetically susceptible. Access to healthcare plays a role, but the WHO suggests that the following factors may have a bigger impact on health than this: where a person lives, the state of the surrounding environment, genetics, income, education level, relationships with friends and family. The social and economic environment, including how wealthy a family or community is; the physical environment, including parasites that exist in an area, or pollution levels; the person's characteristics and behaviors, including the genes that a person is born with and their lifestyle choices, all these factors can clearly influence in a good or bad manner our health. Maintaining wellness and an optimal health should be a lifelong, daily commitment. Steps that can help us maximize our health include: a balanced, nutritious diet, sourced as naturally as possible, regular exercising, screening for diseases that may present a risk, learning to manage stress, engaging in activities that provide purpose and connection to others, maintaining a positive outlook and appreciating what you have, defining a value system, and putting it into action. Peak health will be different for each person, and how you achieve wellness may be different from how someone else does. It may not be possible to avoid disease completely, but doing as much as we can to develop resilience and prepare the body and mind to deal with problems as they arise is a step we can all take. You can also visit: The laws of wellness ; Wellness best quotes ; Wellness in Italy ; Cancer World News ;  Hiv world News ;  Health and fitness ; Yoga teaching ; Sports News ; https://youtu.be/aefZsShHYWI Read the full article

[danielmrose]

The Journey - The Unseen

What do we do when the goal is unseen?

It was Thanksgiving and we were heading to my brother Jay's home outside Baltimore, Maryland. We were excited to spend time with his family and celebrate together. As we drove the weather grew worse and worse.

The snow and sleet were becoming overwhelming. Cars were pulling off and sliding off the road at an alarming rate. My hands gripped the steering wheel tighter than I knew I could. White knuckling was an understatement. I grew more and more tired. Tensions were rising in the car. I knew that Amy wouldn't be comfortable getting behind the wheel and so I drove on.

This journey was not going well.

I desperately wanted to stop and sleep. Amy was desperately trying to find a hotel room.

The “good” hotels were all booked up with other travelers hiding from the storm.

We drove on.

We made it to Jay's house.

Had we known how the journey would have played out, we might not have left. But, the hope of the joy of seeing my brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew, and mom was more than enough to keep us going.

We couldn't see, quite literally, our destination, yet there was hope of the joyful reunion that kept us going. The perseverance paid off! The joy was made that much more sweeter after the difficulty of the journey.

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“So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18, The Message)”

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At the beginning of any journey you can't see the end. You can try to picture it in your mind's eye but you don't see it. You have to start out and just go. You hope that the going will be smooth and easy. You hope that there will not be any bad weather or traffic jams or delayed flights. But, at the end of the day, you just don't know what the journey will be like nor can you see the destination.

Every journey demands faith.

Paul Tillich wrote, “Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”

I'm realizing that this is exactly what has been at the center of my journey toward fitness. It is a journey of the finite being grasped by the infinite.

You see, there's no end to the pursuit of fitness. It's an ongoing journey with various stops along the way.

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I am struck by something that the Apostle Paul says in that quote from 2 Corinthians, “The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.”

As I consider what is going on in my fitness journey, this really is the heart of the matter. It's not about a particular number on the scale or the size of my waist. No, those things are here today and gone tomorrow. It's truly about the pursuit of fitness. A pursuit of something that will last forever.

Being strong, feeling good, having energy, loving well. These are the things that the journey brings about.

So I journey on.

I am believing by faith that the journey will help me become fully myself.

We can't truly see the end when we begin, but stepping out in faith on the journey opens the door to joy.

[lavienbleuuu]

26 and it doesn't have to last forever.

There’s a quote from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin that’s stuck with me ever since I read it.

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”

Growing up, I naively had a feeling that everything would be permanent — that the friends I met on the playground would be the uncles and aunties for my children, that my parents and family were immortal and would be with me every step of the way, that my first love would be my last love (because love always lasts forever right?).

Gradually, I realized that we do not live infinitely — our lives, and most things in them, are finite. School ends, friends move somewhere else, family members grow old and pass away, ‘love’ turns out to be a temporary obsession, and your favorite shows end.

There is always sadness with endings. But there can also be joy because things don’t last forever.

Some — if not many — things are beautiful only because they don’t last forever. Spending an amazing week with friends may not be as amazing if you had to spend a year with them. Everyone thinks back to university as some of the most amazing 4 years of their life, but it’s not so fun once you’ve been there for 7–8 years. The knowledge of the death of your loved ones will scare everyone, but it will also make you cherish the time you have with them more.

Inevitably, the person you are right now won’t be the same forever. You’ll change, you’ll learn, you’ll grow out of people and places. You’ll meet new people, you’ll move to new places, you’ll find new hobbies and career ambitions.

After every ending, there will always be the morning after. The show will always go on. It’s not the ending until it’s ended.

But that does lead to another question — does anything last forever?

Maybe some things do. Maybe one day you’ll decide to settle down somewhere permanently. You’ll find the ‘one’ and commit to a lifetime with them. Some people will refuse to quit on you, and decide to be your friend forever.

So how do you retain the beauty of things that last forever?

It’s all nice to hear about relationships that last forever and houses that are maintained in tip-top shape for generations. But in reality, it’s incredibly difficult to keep things that last for a lifetime. It’s compromise, it’s sweat and tears, it’s hard work.

In reality, it’s easy to be tempted by the shine of new things rather than the wear and tear of old things.

But I’d like to think that the beauty of permanent things does not lie in their perfection, but rather in their imperfection.

Yes, first-edition books in mint condition are beautiful to admire from afar. But an unknown copy of the same book with a withered cover and a weak spine is beautiful too — someone held the book in their hands and actually turned the pages. Maybe there are some pages where teardrops fell and dried up. A mint condition book is beautiful because of its perfection, but a used book is beautiful because, at one point in time, it was used, it was read, and it was loved.

Things that last a lifetime are not always perfect. They will lose their sheen and their sparkle. They will be difficult to maintain at times. But when you’ve decided to keep something forever, then you’ve committed to doing it for better or for worse. And to quote one of my favorite articles from Kurt Armstrong:

“For better, for worse,” we say, and everyone likes to stay when it’s the better. But staying through the worse — that’s the whole point of the vow.

If it’s worth keeping, it’s worth maintaining. Find the beauty in the imperfection and the wear and tear, instead of the shine and sparkle.

There is one more thing that I think can last forever.

Most of the relationships we have with people end. Whether it be through growing apart, an argument, or death, people drift in and out of our lives.

But I think we keep a little bit of each person we meet. Maybe it’s a fleeting memory, a favorite song, a night we won’t forget, or a habit we just can’t seem to get rid of.

Our lives are mosaics of all the people we’ve ever met — some fragments come and go, but some stay embedded forever. My food preferences are shaped by the restaurants that my friends and family recommended to me. I write a certain way because I received feedback from my cousin back when I was in high school. The only dance moves I can confidently pull off are the dance moves that my best friend taught to me years ago. The list goes on.

I hope that in some way, I also have left a lasting piece of myself in the people that I’ve loved and have loved me. I’m not oblivious enough to expect it’ll always be the best piece — I’m sure that I’ve hurt some people or left a nasty taste in the mouth of some others.

But I hope that for the majority of people I’ve had an encounter with, I’ve been good enough to leave a small piece, whether it be something as small as opening the door for them or something as big as irrevocably altering the trajectory of their life (this one is highly unlikely).

Regardless of how I may have impacted others, I’m glad that I carry everyone I’ve ever met in a way, that I’m made up of pieces of everyone I’ve ever met, that I’ve learned something from all the relationships I’ve ever had, and even if some of those pieces wither away, the ones that matter will last forever.

Of course, Succession wasn’t the first time a favorite show has ended. HIMYM, Game of Thrones, and Bojack Horseman all had their finales and ceased to exist.

And as much as I wish that the shows could go on forever, I know that it’s for the better that they came to an end.

There will be new shows to watch. There will be new characters to love. There will be new places to watch them from. There will be new people to watch them with.

The show must go on until it doesn’t.

But there will always be the morning after. And the morning after. And the morning after.

[doomedandstoned]

Swedish Stoner-Doom Trio OCKRA Air Melancholy Full-Length ‘Gratitude’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Artwork by Arjen Kunnen

Progressive doom meets dark rock and folk on the new album 'Gratitude' (2023) by Gothenburg's OCKRA. It would, of course, be tedious (if not impossible) to trace back the various strands of influence on the songs before us. As I stated in my review of their EP, 'Infinite Patterns' (2020):

It’s a bit tricky to draw a direct comparison between OCKRA and other acts. After all, it’s not often we hear a band attempt blending progressive rock with doom metal!

The name Ockra is not, as I briefly assumed, a reference to "okra" (that dreaded nemesis of my childhood, along with brussel sprouts), but rather "ocher" in the Swedish tongue. Ocher, that is, the color and substance of earth. Thus it is no surprise to find that Ockra's songs deal with earthly matters of the here-and-now, leading off with the track "Introspection," which preludes such songs as "Acceptance," "Tage Wie Dieser" ("Days Like This"), and "Tree I Planted." This is music that's meant to be intensely relatable.

"Weightless Again" starts as a straight-up garage rocker that features robust drumming from Jonas Nyström, bouncing about joyfully amidst stirring vocal harmonies and traditional doom riffage. The piece slows up and gets misty, with an aura of sadness at about three-minutes. I praised Cruthu for capturing a similar spirit on 'The Angle of Eternity' (2017), which takes a folk-like approach to writing doom. As the song crescendos, confidence rises, and we return to the peppiness of the beginning, but the atmosphere is still bittersweet, and the chorus remains psychologically piercing. The vibe is "things will get better, just keep hanging on" -- or, to quote the song, you'll be weightless again.

"Tree I Planted" is singer-songwriter fare that hints at the old country and western tradition. If you like the songs that Alice in Chains singer Jerry Cantrell writes, this one is a cinch. Alex Spielhaupter's vocals are earnest, with a serious metallic edge, and get bluesy at times, backed by guest vocalist Stefanie Spielhaupter.

Fourth track "Acceptance" is bound to find its way onto a "Metal Classics" playlist one of these days. From the opening riff on, guitarist Erik Björnlinger had me hooked. The vocals are dark like Pentagram, moody like Goodeye, producing a bonafide earworm of a chorus. The song is thoughtfully structured, took, with a bridge of overlapping voices that brings The Byrds to mind.

The folk influence really shines through on the next track, "We, Who Didn't Know." What might have found life as a two-minute interlude, gets fleshed out into a full-fledged seven-minute song. After a soft vocal introduction (which references "Weightless Again"), the balance shifts to a largely instrumental portion. The whole feel for me was one of daisy-lit hills, until the band goes full metallic at the four-minute mark. Again, Ockra goes for grand, with a crescendo and a full-on rush of soundwaves launching an impassioned chorus, finishing with the solitary note of the guitar.

"Imorgon Här" ("Tomorrow Here") follows, and while the title is in Swedish, the lyrics are still in English. The song is has got an upbeat, bluesy tempo (not unlike Graveyard), but the strength of Ockra's harmonic singing distinguishes them here in a way that is simply magical.

"Tage Wie Dieser" ("Days Like This") is sung entirely in Swedish. Personally, I love when bands include a song or two in their native tongue. If you approach vocals as just another instrument in the band (rather than someone telling you how to think or feel about the song), you may find you appreciate the experience all the more. Here the vocal harmonies are consoling and heavenly.

Suffice it to say, there were things that grabbed me upon first listen (namely "Acceptance"), but the second spin turned out to be even more meaningful, probably because the material was more familiar and I could lean into the songs more comfortably.

Look for Ockra's Gratitude on Friday, May 26th, releasing digitally and on compact disc on Argonauta Records (pre-order here). Stick it on a playlist with Young Hunter, Dunbarrow, and Asteroid.

Give ear...

LISTEN: Ockra - 'Gratitude' (2023)

SOME BUZZ

The band OCKRA arose in early 2018 in Gothenburg from what was left of the stoner doom band Sulphur Dreams. With a strong desire to stretch musical barriers away from what is known as classic stoner or doom metal, the trio around Jonas Nyström, Erik Björnlinger and Alex Spielhaupter set out to develop their songwriting skills and find their own style under the new name OCKRA. The band has a wide range of influences from metal to folk, americana and jazz.

The first EP with four songs was self-recorded in a 'DIY' spirit at the home studio in Onsala during spring/summer 2019 (with guest singer Ammy from EPA/Lastkaj14) and was released in March 2020 via Argonauta Records a week before the first lockdown put everything on hold.

The songs were well received by the media and the reviews in online and print magazines turned out very positive. As an example, the EP got 12 out 15 points in Germany's largest print magazine for extreme metal "Legacy."

Gratitude by OCKRA

 Infinite Patterns by OCKRA

During the summer of 2021, the trio went out to the little village Hesedorf near Hamburg to record their debut album 'Gratitude' together with Peter Voigtmann (The Ocean Collective, Heads.) at his studio "Die Mühle" (the mill).

The calm environment and the nature around made it possible to go into a state of creative isolation. That may have had an impact on the music, which now has more elements of singer-songwriter and folk music.

The lyrics have been written in the shade of the pandemic and severe illnesses amongst close friends and family members in this period. Writing these very personal lyrics has been some kind of therapeutic and despite the severeness of the topics they are meant to provide a glimpse of hope.

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