Savoir-vivre.
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”So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavour, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.
John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via e-pic)
(Source: supprosetry)
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”We keep ourselves so busy and so overworked that we do not have time to see that we are in a fog and searching for something of great importance. We look to our work, our money, or our families to fulfill us, and all these ‘solutions’ fail miserably. Even if we are successful, when we stop long enough we are aware of a feeling of loneliness and emptiness. We have failed to realize that nothing from outside can really fill us up and that the person we really long to find is ourselves. Not having ourselves and not being in touch with ourselves is life-threatening. When we leave ourselves, we are more vulnerable to outside influences and less aware of what we really need. How exciting it is to begin to see the fog lift and to know that that for which we so desperately search has been there with us all the time. What I am looking for is not “out there”. It is in me. It is me.”
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”In other sports, your focus is to win and to win over others. In the running sport, you always win. Even if you had an off day, you still win. Your focus is to best yourself, to continually strive for improvement over yourself. To find out what you’re really capable of.
suzedoeslife (via hifitness)
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Meds getting me down.
I still havent completely recovered from my wisdom tooth extraction, and have been on meds since last Saturday. There is a nagging pain, my eating and sleeping patterns are affected, and I have a race on Saturday.
UGH.
