“Parenting tip: my 3-year-old will do anything a hand puppet asks him to.”
Elizabeth McCracken
more infosource: Twitter, May 15th, 2010 1:19 PM via TweetDeck
category: parenting, puppet, tip, Twitter pearls
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“Poetry is a hypodermic injection of passion. It gets under your skin like snake fangs and poisons you into being alive.”
Mary Karr
more infosource: Twitter, June 28, 2010 9:27:40 PM EDT via web
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category: passion, poetry, Twitter pearls, writing
medium: social media
“Developing an adequate response to rejection, neither defensive nor sentimental, lies at the heart of any serious attempt at sanity.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 9:22 AM Sept 9, 2010 via web
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category: rejection, sanity, school of life, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“Schopenhauer: the task of philosophy is to turn tears into knowledge. And for me, a sigh into a tweet.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 11:57 AM Apr 14, 2010 via web
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category: knowledge, philosophy, Schopenhauer, tears, tweet, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“When it finally briefly happens, happiness can feel very worrying.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 11:59 PM Apr 14, 2010 via mobile web
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category: happiness, Twitter pearls, worry
medium: social media
“Most great problems have no solutions, beyond the relief to be had in sharing and analysing them.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 12:27 AM Apr 15, 2010 via mobile web
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category: solution, Twitter pearls, unsolvable problem
medium: social media
“What grief we’d avoid if we knew how to transfer emotional experience across generations, as we do money or scientific knowledge.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 2:09 AM Apr 9, 2010 mobile web
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category: emotion, grief, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“It takes a particular lack of imagination to feel no discomfort in the presence of a cleaner.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 11:03 AM Apr 9, 2010 via web
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category: cleaning, imagination, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“There are meetings which, when cancelled at the last minute, give one an ecstatic feeling of having cheated death for a little longer.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 8:08 AM Apr 21, 2010 via web
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category: death, meeting, Twitter pearls
medium: social media
“The reason to travel: there are inner transitions we can’t properly cement without a change of locations.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: Twitter, 9:03 AM Apr 12, 2010 via web
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category: change, geography, journey, location, self-care, transition, travel, Twitter pearls, vacation
medium: social media
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