January 2012
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
– Maya Angelou (via robynthebank)
Chapter one
big booty snow bunnies, watermellon Ciroc and the pursuit of the American Dream.
December 2011
November 2011
Pleasure principle
In Freudian psychology, the pleasure principle is the psychoanalytic concept describing people seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering (pain) in order to satisfy their biological and psychological needs.[1] Furthermore, the counterpart concept, the reality principle, describes people choosing to defer gratification of a desire when circumstantial reality disallows its immediate gratification. In...
Id
The id is unconscious by definition:
“It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learned from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of that is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething...
October 2011
That Girl Belle: Buddha said.. →
thatgirlbelle:
Buddha and another monk were walking along and met a naked woman trying to cross the river. Buddha let the naked woman crawl up onto his back and he carried her across the river. Once across, she climbed off and went about her way. Buddha and the now horrified companion continued on their…
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
“Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated...”
– Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit
“my mother always told me not to let anyone fuck with me. it stuck with me.”
– (via buccibandana)
