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I Like Your Flaws. I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them.

I Like Your Flaws

I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you. When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your beauty marks freckles pimples, the minuscule mountains that sprinkle your back. I like the tufts of hair you forgot to shave and the way you smell when you haven’t showered in a while; I like the sleep left in your eyes. I like the way your skin dies in the middle of the night, how you die from embarrassment the next morning; how you writhe in the snake casing you’ve left behind. I enjoy seeing you insecure, vulnerable. The burns, the scars, the black and blues on your face body heart, I want to know their stories. "The egg" - Page 11. 375 Free eBooks: Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook. 4 Ways You Might Be Rejecting Yourself. Fear of rejection is a big issue for many people -- and it used to be for me, too.

4 Ways You Might Be Rejecting Yourself

I used to be so worried about how others felt about me that I was often anxious in my interactions with them -- always trying to say and do the "right" thing so they would like me or at least think well of me. What I didn't realize in those years was that there were many ways I was rejecting myself, which led me to feel like I wasn't good enough unless others liked me and approved of me.

My fear of others' rejection was really a projection of the many ways I was rejecting myself. That was many years ago. Fortunately, when I stopped rejecting myself, my fear of others' rejection went away. In working with many thousands of clients over the last 44 years, and in healing my own fear of rejection, I've discovered four major ways many people reject themselves. 1. Do you feel rejected when others judge you? 30 Books I'm Glad I Read Before 30.

In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives.

30 Books I'm Glad I Read Before 30

I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site. A medley of both fiction and nonfiction, these great reads challenged my internal status quo, opening my mind to new ideas and opportunities, and together they gave me a basic framework for living, loving, learning and working successfully.

Hogwarts Is in Your Head, Harry: Conspiracy Theories About Literature. My collection of funny emails from my inbox. Subject: 5 MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

My collection of funny emails from my inbox.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel. " After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. "Great! " Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure. Lesson 2: A priest offered a Nun a lift. The priest removed his hand. Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. All I Need to Know... What is Occam's Razor? [Physics FAQ] - [Copyright] Updated 1997 by Sugihara Hiroshi.

What is Occam's Razor?

Original by Phil Gibbs 1996. Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Ockham was the village in the English county of Surrey where he was born. The principle states that "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily. " "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" In fact, only the first two of these forms appear in his surviving works and the third was written by a later scholar. Stumblers Who Like 101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and...

Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Since its inception eighteen months ago, our sister site Makes Me Think (MMT) has truly evolved into a remarkable online community.

Stumblers Who Like 101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and...

Every day, users share their thought-provoking life stories and vote on stories that other users have shared. Some are happy, some are sad, and others twist your emotions, pulling them in several directions at once. As stated on the MMT About page, sometimes the most random everyday encounters force us to stop and rethink the truths and perceptions we have ingrained in our minds. I believe the 101 stories listed below perfectly fulfill that description. Top 10 Novels of the 2000s. 623 of the Best Books ever Written. Free Audiobooks and eBooks - Librophile.