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“it is a tuesday when i love someone who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time, but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand, soars like a child in a rocket ship, doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe in learning a lesson. wants to give…”

— Yena Sharma Purmasir, four of thirty

“I want someone to laugh with. To stay up late with and talk about dreams. To go on adventures with, big or small. To sip wine and make breakfast together, and feel like we know every little thing about each other’s lives.”

— Marisa Donnelly, I Don’t Want A Lover, I Want A Best Friend

“The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself — the specific tongue that we happen to speak — shapes our thoughts and perceptions. Those who believe in linguistic determinism, the strictest version, might argue that a culture that lacks a term for a certain emotion — a particular s…”

— Emily Anthes, John Cassidy, The Glossary of Happiness - The New Yorker

“Once a friend had told me that it was only when I was drunk that I seemed to know exactly what I wanted. And so, two months later, in the midst of the farewell party in my growing wildness—dancing, balancing a wine glass on my forehead and falling to the floor twisting round and getting up without l…”

— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the co…”

— Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

— C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“If you’re an artist there are always new modes of expression, new things to create and communicate. The world isn’t fixed, it’s always changing, so that means you have to create anew in light of the changes... I don’t think any good scientist thinks one day science will come to an end. Science is ab…”

— Olivia Goldhill, Neuroscience confirms that to be truly happy, you will always need something more

“Neuroscientist Jaak Panskepp argues that of seven core instincts in the human brain (anger, fear, panic-grief, maternal care, pleasure/lust, play, and seeking), seeking is the most important. All mammals have this seeking system, says Panskepp, wherein dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked to reward a…”

— Olivia Goldhill, Neuroscience confirms that to be truly happy, you will always need something more

“Looking back, we chuckle. We’re glad the Internet Wayback Machine hasn’t exposed the Angelfire or Geocities webpages of our past.”

— Jason Winter, Cinemagraphs: the latest evolution of the animated GIF - InVision Blog

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Unlike 30 years ago, the internet today can stream video, yet the animated GIF has withstood the test of time.”

— Jason Winter, Cinemagraphs: the latest evolution of the animated GIF - InVision Blog

“You torment yourself wondering how they could not love your burning heart; and the answer is darling, you are not the star you thought you were. You are the fucking universe.”

— Marimontoya, via Tumblr

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed

“When Uber said it is profitable, the company similarly left out equity grants to employees, along with interest and taxes. Its main ride-hailing rival in the U.S., Lyft, declined to elaborate on its "path to profitability" statement, leaving questions about how or when it will reach its destination.…”

— Ellen Huet, Tech Startups Come Up With Some Creative Definitions for ‘Profitable’

“The social media company will soon stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for messages, according to a person familiar with the matter. The change could happen in the next two weeks, said the person who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t yet public. Links cur…”

— Sarah Frier, Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

“Initially, I was very excited about both promises and generators, but now that I’ve been living with them for a while, I haven’t found a lot of good use cases for generators in my real application code. For most use-cases I might use generators for, I reach for RxJS instead because of it’s much rich…”

— Eric Elliott, 7 Surprising Things I Learned Writing a Fibonacci Generator in JavaScript — JavaScript Scene

“Apple released an update to iTunes today that's supposed to give it 'a simpler design', supposedly making it easier to navigate between sections to find what you're looking for. To do that, it brings back an old iTunes standby: the lefthand navigation bar, which disappeared a while back.”

— Jacob Kastrenakes, Apple updates iTunes with a 'simpler' design that doesn't really help

“This isn’t a story about how some guy finally saves me from myself. I’m my own hero here; I do the saving.”

— Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

“You’re my best friend because you’re not afraid to call me out on my crap or disagree with me. I can’t get away with anything when I’m with you. You’ll tell me things that I need to hear but everyone else is too afraid to tell me. Your honesty is so damn refreshing albeit a bitter pill to swallow so…”

— Ryan O'Connell, This Is Why You’re My Best Friend