“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.
As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.
As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.
As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of
problems
with ourselves or others.
Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.
Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!”
—
Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday on April 16, 1959
Fantastic vintage Danish illustrated guide to love from 1963, decades ahead of its time in subjects covered and condoned.
I delivered this speech to students to mark the 1/3rd way through the Flatiron School journey.
Now more than ever in your life your future can be of your choosing.
If you seek out challenges, you will find them to be opportunities.
If you confront your fears, you will conquer them and gain…
<3
(via flatironschool)
Preaching to the choir!
(via explore-blog)
Raw beet ravioli (gluten-free)
Programming is a perfect blend of artistic expression and engineering ingenuity of 21st century. And I want to be a part of it.
Please, pick me!
I feel so small
Yet as a part of whole
Submit to greater power of the universe
Be a proud member of the community called LIFE
After the 2012 transit of Venus in ultra-high definition photos, the transit in ultra-high definition video.
The New York Public Library releases Biblion: Frankenstein for iPad, exploring rare collections of Mary Shelley materials that continue to inspire ideas and storytelling today – a sequel to NYPL’s Biblion: World’s Fair.
