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32 Game-Changing Quotes About Love And Life That Will Make You Feel Better, Instantly. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose.

32 Game-Changing Quotes About Love And Life That Will Make You Feel Better, Instantly

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family. Jim Butcher Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. Original photographs from the Civil War. Every Week, 2 Anonymous Students Sneak Into A Classroom To Create Something Awesome. Who is Dangerdust?

Every Week, 2 Anonymous Students Sneak Into A Classroom To Create Something Awesome.

According to CCAD every week two anonymous intruders have been sneaking into classrooms on campus, leaving some cool chalkboard messages with the signature, #dangerdust. It captured the attention of the students and are now shared far and wide through social media. One of the students were lucky enough to get an interview with #dangerdust. “It’s definitely a passion,” they agreed. Some of My Favorite Inspirational Quotes. 40 Ways to Feel More Alive. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

40 Ways to Feel More Alive

~Joseph Campbell As I write this, I am two hours away from my first weekly acting class in Los Angeles. I’ve been here for almost two years now, and though I loved Community Theater as a kid, I never so much as researched acting classes until a couple weeks back. June 03st to June 09th. Inspiring, beautifully designed quote every day. 54 Unexpected Ways to Hack Your Health. You Might Like 19 Tips to Boost Confidence Right Now READ Feeling stressed?

54 Unexpected Ways to Hack Your Health

How to Hack Your Brain. 25 clever ideas to make life easier. Via: amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com Why didn’t I think of that?!

25 clever ideas to make life easier

We guarantee you’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems … some you never knew you had! (Above: hull strawberries easily using a straw). Via: apartmenttherapy.com. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills. 30 things to do in the next 30 days. You can do these in any order you want, but do challenge yourself to do at least one each day, in the next 30 days. 1.

30 things to do in the next 30 days

Focus on one big goal Take one huge goal or dream of yours and do something every single day to move towards the achievement of it. 2. Try a new restaurant. The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011. 88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life. Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life.

88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life

Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth. 1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Automatic Flatterer. The 50 most inspiring travel quotes of all time.

**UPDATE: Partly inspired by this article and its hundreds of thousands of readers, Matador has published our first book, No Foreign Lands.

The 50 most inspiring travel quotes of all time

The book takes 100 of the most memorable travel quotes ever spoken or written, and juxtaposes them over striking travel images from Matador’s extended community of photographers. 19 pictures which scream NO EXCUSES. Probably one of the only times I think saying, “No” is alright, as in No Excuses.

19 pictures which scream NO EXCUSES

No Excuses must be one of the strongest things you can tell yourself, because it wakes you up and lets you know what you’re actually saying to yourself… … to hold yourself back. Nothing more, nothing less. However legitimate, reasonable, excusable, tired, bored, unmotivated, lazy, partied out, discouraged, listless, lethargic, stupid, slack or whatever the hell you are, guess what? There’s probably someone out there worse off and always willing to try anyway. Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else. To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. Every word plays its part. 18 Rules of Living by the Dalai Lama. “Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to maint. Identity News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Indeed. Seems rather counter-intuitive to have to hand over your license, with your date-of-birth, address, hair color, eye color, height and organ donor status just to get a corporation to scrub your date-of-birth, address, hair color, eye color, height and God knows what else from their records.

Very true. 30 Challenges for 30 Days. Did you know that it takes 30 days to form a new habit? The first few days are similar as to how you would imagine the birth of a new river. Full of enthusiasm it gushes forth, only to be met by strong obstacles. The path is not clear yet, and your surroundings don’t agree. Old habits urge you to stay the same. Badass of the Week: Anthony Omari. Anthony Omari Late on the night of January 23, 2012, a 24 year-old Kenyan uber-hero named Anthony Omari awoke to find three gigantic dudes with machetes standing over his bed. He knew right away that they weren't there to sell Girl Scout cookies or ask him for a jumping mid-air high-five.

Omari is the custodian of Faraja Children's Home in Ngong, Kenya – a sanctuary of healing and love that over the past several years has grown from a tin-roofed one-room shack in the slums of Nairobi into a decent-sized facility that has taken in 37 boys and girls who have been abandoned or orphaned from the street. A place of hope and peace for children who have tragically slipped through the cracks of Kenyan society. Omari's mother, known to her charges only as "Momma", runs the Home, and, ever the diligent son, Anthony lives at the facility and helps his mom make sure that the children are provided for with a warm bed, a hot meal, a primary school education, and medical attention when they need it.

Alternative Sleep Cycles: You Don’t Really Need 6-8 Hours! Most people only think that there is one way to sleep: Go to sleep at night for 6-8 hours, wake up in the morning, stay awake for 16-18 hours and then repeat. Actually, that is called a monophasic sleep cycle, which is only 1 of 5 major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history. The other 4 are considered polyphasic sleep cycles due to the multiple number of naps they require each day. How is this possible?