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| User: | frostflake (1310676)
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| Name: | Catherine |
| Location: | Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States |
| Birthdate: | 10-09 |
| Bio: | Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
-- Max Ehrmann, 1927 |
| Memories: | 17 entries |
| Interests: | 123: adult swim, aesthetics, alexander pushkin, andrei sakharov, antonio vivaldi, aristotle, art, atlx, beauty, bigstupidwordsthatnooneknows, calvin and hobbes, camping, carl gustav jung, catty french insults, colour, comedy, comedy central, comics, cooking, crisp linen, cynicism, daria, dark rainy city nights, darwin awards, dc voting rights, disemboweling hipsters, dmitri shostakovich, dorothy parker, double and triple entendres, dreams, e, eddie izzard, edward gorey, ego stroking, emily dickinson, even more than unusually, expats, fire, fireflies, flowers, funny t-shirts, genetics, get fuzzy, god, hermann hesse, hiking, holy or broken halleleujahs, ibelieveinathingcalledlove, interobang, iron chef, ironic thumbs-up, italo calvino, james joyce, kids in the hall, languages, late night conversations, late-night baking, laziness, lewis black, liberty meadows, libraries, literature, lord of the rings, lyrics, making up words, mashed potatoes, maurits cornelis escher, monosyllabic grunts, motorcycles, movies, my toes, mystery science theater 3000, nerd stuff, not driving, number theory, obscure literary references, odd words, old comic books, omar khayyam, peace, pearls before swine, phi, plato, pretending i'm not pretentious, procrastinating, puns, puzzles, raindrops, recalibrating the deflector shield, relativity, robin williams, rock and roll, running & avoiding running, saving ticket stubs, semantics, shoes, snowflakes, social justice, solitude, star wars, stealing fire from gods, tai chi/chai tea, tarot, tea, the chemistry of alcohol, the daily show, the onion, the pink panther, the power of cheese, the second sex, the smell of books, theatre, thomas jefferson, thrift stores, uncommon sense, wheel of time, william butler yeats, william faulkner, wolfgang amadeus mozart, wondering, writing, zoolander, ∞ |
| Schools: | Agnes Scott College - Decatur, GA
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| Friends: |  | 75: | aboysbestfriend, absurdsluttery, adriennefriend, altoosaxy, antonia055, asimaiyat, atl_biscuit, biochuck, blairette, calitetra, carokaro, charlottedax, clodia_risa, colonnade_girl, cristiona0485, cronodeus, cronopio, darkfirehair, ditriana, dress_rehearsal, drstevetr, efg, elliedb06, fivehands, flaccus, frigid_pink, frostflake, gelishan, grizzant, gt_sportsfiend, heymofo, itealaich, jesterofsanity, jheinka, jimproper, jixie_jive, lotuspearl, lubuforhire, mellofellow13, meltingsho, midoriliem, munchkinjess, nikikikiii, ninjaboyjohn, octopedingenue, prajnadeidre, professor_shoe, purple_hues, qwantz, rowr2tame, ruluo_turnleaf, ryan_a_russo, schephouder, scorcerrer, scottiehottie08, scottique, sexysadie04, sezabelle, shoelesszombie, soranokumo, stokes3452, syzygy5, tessy1617, theirishscottie, tinygod, turquoisegirl, tworedmaryjanes, unitvector, verucalane, viking_metal, vorozheya, wh0r3muffin, wingedcoyote, xorphus, z3p |  | 12: | _dilbert_strip, agnesscott, audiography, awesome_places, dc_dancers, feedback, house_tracks, obsessiveicons, sinfest_mod, ssda, vegancooking, womenscolleges |  | 3: | _anacrusis, dictionary_wotd, xorph |
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| Friend of: | 73: aboysbestfriend, absurdsluttery, altoosaxy, antonia055, asimaiyat, atl_biscuit, biochuck, blairette, calitetra, carokaro, charlottedax, colonnade_girl, cronodeus, darkfirehair, ditriana, drstevetr, efg, elliedb06, fivehands, flaccus, frigid_pink, frostflake, gelishan, grizzant, gt_sportsfiend, heymofo, iamshirticus, itealaich, jesterofsanity, jheinka, jimproper, jixie_jive, lotuspearl, lubuforhire, maria_beall, mellofellow13, meltingsho, midoriliem, munchkinjess, nikikikiii, ninjaboyjohn, octopedingenue, prajnadeidre, professor_shoe, purple_hues, quistiselvalord, rowr2tame, ruluo_turnleaf, ryan_a_russo, schephouder, scorcerrer, scottiehottie08, scottique, serendipitymegs, sexysadie04, sezabelle, shoelesszombie, soranokumo, stokes3452, syzygy5, tessy1617, theirishscottie, tinygod, turquoisegirl, tworedmaryjanes, unitvector, viking_metal, vorozheya, wh0r3muffin, william_beatty, wingedcoyote, xorphus, z3p |
| Member of: | 12: _dilbert_strip, agnesscott, audiography, awesome_places, dc_dancers, feedback, house_tracks, obsessiveicons, sinfest_mod, ssda, vegancooking, womenscolleges |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
