September 2010
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The Brain that Changes Itself →
THE BRAIN CAN CHANGE ITSELF. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging....
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“Ist das Leben nicht hundertmal zu kurz für Langeweile?”
– Isn’t life a hundred times to short for boredom?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Wenn ich gewußt hätte, wie schwer es ist, deine Hand loszulassen, dann hätte ich...”
– If I had known, how hard it is to let go of your hand, then I never would have touched it.
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“Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free.
Be...”
– Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons
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August 2010
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Black Tulip →
I adore Alexandre Dumas, and I adore his ‘The Black Tulip.’
It is a work of beautiful imagery and imagination hidden in a deceptively simple storyline - the race to create the Black Tulip in Holland in 1672, set amongst political turmoil and true historical events.
I discovered Dumas of course, as a child reading ‘The Three Musketeers’ but fell in love with him with...
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One memory I have
My sister and I used to play hookey from School by pretending to our gullible but lovable and protective Mother that we were feeling ill. A few hours later we had made a recovery and were playing ice skating on the living room floor by laying out a large sheet on the ground and sliding on it in a pair of socks.
She was in Kindergarten and I was in Reception, or prep.
We still have the same...
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There will be Tears →
I have always been impossibly intrigued by the psychology behind tears, and why we cry.
It is always a huge relief to cry, I always feel lighter and brighter when I have finished howling. It turns out that there is a hormone that is produced in our tears, our emotional tears, that reduces stress. Crying really does relieve some of your pain, it is true that whilst you may feel drained after...
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Two things I want
Global Warming to not exist
The world to work in the right way for the right people
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3 Things I miss
Feeling like myself
My childhood imagination
Learning and Studying
(I did not write people or cities here, because I feel as if I post about that all the time, and think about it all the time, and it is pretty obvious that I miss my Boyfriend.)
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“Nicht die Schönheit entscheidet wen wir lieben, sondern die Liebe entscheidet...”
– Beauty does not decide who we love, rather, love decides who we find beautiful
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Instant Gratification
“I was a very smart kid, I was a great salesman and I was driven to make money,” he says now. “Those were God-given assets. But I had some God-given detriments, mainly that I was emotionally immature, insecure and I had a predisposition to instant gratification.”
- Jorden Belfort
To be purchased in the morning. So excited about this book!
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Four things I wish I could say, but might never
I am not convinced that the city that I live in is a good environment to bring up children in.
I am proud of my accomplishments
I did not ever think that of all the people I know, I would be the happy one.
I used to think that I was not worthy of the love I wanted, and that I would never find it.
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5 Songs I like
Cousins, Vampire Weekend
Little Black Sandals, Sia
Little Secrets, Passion Pit
In For the Kill, La Roux
I’d do Anything, John Butler Trio
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“Das Traurige ist, dass wir uns im Heranswachsen nicht nur an die Gesetze der...”
– Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
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“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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Six things I love
Excluding people.
Paris
The Black Forrest
Snowboarding
Sunsets over beaches
Germany
Australian beaches
All images are my own, taken either by myself or my boyfriend
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This Room
I was thinking about raindrops,
when I was thinking about you.
It is raining in this room,
the thunder ravaging through.
The wind howls dangerously,
when you let yourself down.
And the weather loves responding,
to your tears, to your frown.
It is sunny when you sing,
The blossoms are in bloom.
And of feeling of hope,
resonates within this room.
It travels through the summer,
laughter...
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Books Books Books
A book I wish more people were reading and talking about: Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
The best book I have read in the last 12 months: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Stieg Laarson
Favorite book: Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
A book series I wish had gone on longer: Harry Potter
Favorite book of my favorite series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Least favorite...
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7 things that cross my mind a lot
My Sister. I worry a lot.
My Boyfriend. I miss him a lot.
Germany. ditto.
University applications. Looming deadlines
Food. What I want to eat versus what I can eat. Lunch. Breakfast. Dinner.
Global Warming. I worry a lot.
Books. I love words a lot.
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My beautiful blonde bestie
Millie: It's blocking my eye view!
Georgie: You mean vision?
Millie: That's the one!
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LOVE
We cannot live, except thus mutually
We alternate, aware or unaware, The reflex act of life:
and when we bear Our virtue onward most impulsively,
Most full of invocation, and to be Most instantly compellant,
certes , there We live most life,
whoever breathes most air
And counts his dying years by sun and sea.
But when a soul, by choice and conscience,
doth Throw out her full force on...
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Pull at the heart through the eyes →
Photography by © Mohammad Moniruzzaman - some of the most emotive images I have ever seen!
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Love for Germans
Es gibt Menschen, die ich brauche. Es gibt Menschen, die ich liebe. Und es gibt Menschen, die ich brauche, weil ich sie liebe.
There are people, that I need. There are people, that I love. and there are people, that I need, because I love them.
A common German saying.
photo: unknown origin
“The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.”
– A fraction of the whole, Steve Tolz
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“Die Weltgeschichte ist auch die Summe dessen, was vermeidbar gewesen wäre.
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– - Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), West Germany’s first chancellor
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Es war ein schwieriger Tag
Ich habe jetzt das Gefühl, als ob ich mich über nichts gefreut habe. Aber das stimmt wohl nicht. Ich hatte einen super leckeren Frühstück und danach war ich sehr zufrieden. Aber dann hab ich erkannt,dass mein Freund sein Handy in Frankreich vermutlich verloren hat. Entweder das oder es wurde gestohlen,denn es ist nicht erreichbar. Das freut mich nicht so sehr,denn er bleibt dort noch ein einhalb...
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“Die beste Bildung findet ein gescheiter Mensch auf Reisen.
The best education...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
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“Nicht der Mangel der Liebe, sondern der Mangel an Freundschaft macht...”
– - Friedrich Nietzsche (via germanheit)
Not the lack of love but the lack of friendship creates unhappy marriages.
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Parisian Dreams
photo credit: Boyfriend, July 2009
But Paris - beautiful poor ugly opulent vast complex grey rainy & French. You see unbelievable women, umbrellas, beggars, tree-lined streets, bicycles, church spires, gloomy domes, balconies, broken flowerpots, rudeness that will ring through eternity, aimless pedestrians, majestic gardens, black trees, bad teeth, ritzy stores, socialists moving their...
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“Wisdom begins in Wonder.”
– Socrates.
Philosophy comes from the Greek word, Philosophia, meaning, the love of wisdom.
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Romance when I was 17
Romance used to be considered normal.
Love was all about poetry; William Shakespeare, a feeling that grows in “eternal lines to time.” Immortalising an emotion, a connection between two people that stopped the race to find happiness, because all of a sudden, happiness is staring you in the eyes. Love letters, wild Roses, sharing stories by the fire, lying in fields of flowers, going...
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Freedom, War and Peace
In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy toys with the idea of the “unwavering, irrefutable consciousness of freedom” and the idea that freewill is “subject o man’s consciousness.”
He believes that an individual’s freedom is controlled by the reason and experience that they have encountered in the past. I believe that this theory can be applied to your world..how aware...
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“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
One of the most compelling epigraphs in modern literature teaches the reader, that the quality of our existence relies on our ability to critically examine the world around us, and to wonder about everything we encounter.
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“Life is a perpetual yesterday”
– The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold. ‘Life is a perpetual yesterday’ because the past is a deep vault of information, crucial to understanding prejudice and lie in present day society. Life will always be an everlasting yesterday. There are always going to be moments which you look on...
