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"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:02:06 -0400

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

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- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via outcamethesun)

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:56:14 -0400

"I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:54:20 -0400

“I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can.”

- Kristin Armstrong (via kelsi-recovers)

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"I’ll kiss you awake, and we’ll have time to know our neighbors all by name - and every star at..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:48:07 -0400

“I’ll kiss you awake, and we’ll have time to know our neighbors all by name - and every star at night. We’ll weave our days together like waves and particles of light. I want only this: I want to live a simple life.”

- Simple Life | The Weepies (via outcamethesun)

"A healthy relationship is one where two independent people just make a deal that they will help make..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:46:30 -0400

“A healthy relationship is one where two independent people just make a deal that they will help make the other person the best version of themselves.”

- damn. so true. (via thatkindofwoman)

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myidealhome: simple workspace (via Inspiring Interiors)

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:50:46 -0500

myidealhome:

simple workspace (via Inspiring Interiors)

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Zomg cute

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Zomg cute

"‎You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:07:47 -0500

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‎You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

You have to pay your electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.

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- Cheryl Strayed (via alifelivedwell)

stitchesandpurls: LOVE this!

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:00:10 -0500

stitchesandpurls:

LOVE this!

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