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I actually attack the concept of happiness. I don’t mind people being happy – but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying ‘write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep’, and 'cheer up’ and 'happiness is our birthright’ and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position – it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say 'Quick! Move on! Cheer up!’. I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word 'happiness’ and to replace it with the word 'wholeness’. Ask yourself 'is this contributing to my wholeness?’ and if you’re having a bad day, it is.

Hugh Mackay (via victoriousvocabulary)

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SLUGABED

[noun]

a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.

Etymology: slug, from late Middle English slugge, “sluggard” + abed, from Old English bedde, “in bed”.

[Jacek Yerka - The Moonlight Bed]

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DELICATAMENTE [aka DELICATO]

[adverb]

1. delicately.

2. finely.

3. softly.

4. gently.

Etymology: from Italian delicato (from Latin delicatus) +‎ -mente (from Latin mente, ablative singular of mēns, “mind”).

[Michael Parkes - Butterfly Moon]

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Cold Weather Phenomenon Displaying Beautiful Light Pillars in the Sky

Website MyModernMet did a compilation of pictures about a particular weather phenomenon : when it’s too cold, in some countries, we can see magnificent light pillers appearing in the sky, like neon lights. These lights give the impression of being in a science fiction movie with UFOs and aliens.

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Stop Wars,

Banksy

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The Magical illustrations by Christian Schloe

Anything can happen in a world that holds such beauty. #Love it!

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Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."

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BUMMEL

[verb] 

saunter; stroll; to go or wander around at a leisurel pace. 

Etymology: from German bummeln, “to loaf”.

[Miles Johnston - Autumn Walk]

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GENESIC 

[adjective] 

of, like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals; reproduction; genesis. 

Etymology: from Latin, “generation, birth” < Greek génesis, “origin, source”.

[Bedelgeuse - Anatomy of a Female Orgasm & Anatomy of a Male Orgasm]

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EESOME

[adjective] 

Obsolete: pleasing to the eye; attractive. 

Etymology: uncertain, thought to be Scottish.

[Flóra Borsi - Animeyed (Self-Portraits)]

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The other side of here, Henrietta Harris

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CATS AND GIRLS

ost famous for his portraits of four-eyed cats, Casey Weldon offers unnerving portrayals of both his human and animal subjects.

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Wonderful figurative wood sculptures by Italian artist Bruno Walpoth. 

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Love the moody, well-lit paintings by Swedish painter Markus Åkesson. See more on his website here. 

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"...and we must consider,"

"..that since- unfortunately- we are forced to live together, the most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible. I see no ethical standard to which to measure the whole unethical conception of a State, except in the amount of time, of money, of effort, and of obedience, which a society extorts from its every member. It's value and its civilization are an inverse ratio to that extortion. There is no conceivable law by which a man can be forced to work on any terms except those he chooses to set. There is no conceivable law to prevent him from setting them- just as there are none to force his employer to accept them. The freedom to agree or disagree is the foundation of our kind of society...." - Ayn Rand, Fountainhead

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Lovely large-scale paintings from Alaska-based painter David Pettibone, see more on his website here.