Marc Stone
- Love is like...
It's difficult to put into words. It's the absence of all logic and reason, it's the sensation of not knowing a single thing that's happening with your emotions, yet you push forward. To quote Ted Mosby, it's the best thing we do. I can't describe it for everyone, but I know that it makes you feel everything in extremes. You don't just feel joy, you feel utter and total bliss. You don't just feel sadness, you feel a deep and profound hollowness. It's the most beautiful, painful thing.
Marc Stone
- Unrequited Love is like...
It feels like being the only person in the world, and every so often you get a passing glimpse of someone else. Someone wonderful, someone who can finally exist in this huge, empty space with you. But they don't ever see you. They pass right through you and continue on, and you're just left in this hollow emptiness that only gets wider and more lonely.
Herreweghe & Bretagne (trans. Johnston)
- Anton Bruckner
Bruckner's music is at the opposite pole from a totalitarian, reductionist world view. It is far removed from violence, light years away from the cult of power. Like that of Schubert, it is profoundly melancholy; it mourns paradise lost, it strives (and manages), like no other, to evoke calm and reassurance.
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- Loveless [Act III]
My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I? All that awaits you is a somber morrow. No matter where the winds may blow. My soul, corrupted by vengeance. Hath endured torment, to find the end of the journey. In my own salvation. And your eternal slumber.
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- Loveless [Act II]
Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh. There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds.
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- Loveless [Prologue]
When the war of the beasts brings about the world's end. The goddess descends from the sky. Wings of light and dark spread afar. She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting.
Andrew Tate
- Andrew Tate's Closing Message
"My unmatched perspicacity, coupled with sheer indefatigability, makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor" -Andrew Emory Tate. Now here are some extra words to fill the 150 character requirement for these typing tests.
anonymous
- Somtimes I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder if we're meant for each other. Sometimes I wonder whether you like me, or if the touches and caresses we exchanged while we passed each other every day were unfulfilled promises that I made for myself. Sometimes I wonder if I made it all up to not feel the grief of losing you. Sometimes I wonder if we were ever even meant for each other. Sometimes I wonder.
Dan Auerbach
Being sixteen years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
Don't remember
- change
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided. You learn what to do in the future based on what you were rewarded for doing (or punished for doing) in the past.
World Economic Forum
- Inflation, debt crisis major risks
Bangladesh's economy faces five major risks in the next two years, the top three being sustained inflation, debt crises and severe commodity price shocks, according to a report released by World Economic Forum (WEF). Human-made environmental damage and geopolitical contestation of resources are the remaining two, said The Global Risks Report 2023.
Steve Magness
- "Do Hard Things"
In sport, the controlling, demanding style also fails. On the athletic fields, it's linked to lower grit and an increase in emotional exhaustion, burnout, and fear of failure. Even in terms of discipline, the area that you would think a demanding style would be successful, it falls short. In one study of over 1,200 parents, authoritarian parenting was linked to a much higher rate of child misbehavior. It even fails in places where it seems a natural fit: the military.
BBC writers
- Merlin Rant
I'm too busy running around after Arthur. Do this Merlin. Do that Merlin. And when I'm not running around after Arthur, I'm doing chores for you. And if I'm not doing that, I'm fulfilling my destiny. Do you know how many times I've saved Arthur's life? I've lost count. Do I get any thanks? No. I have fought griffins, witches, bandits, I have been punched, poisoned pelted with fruit...
Benjamin Buford Blue
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That's about it.
McFodi
- Justin
The town's local idiot. We estimated his IQ to be around 72. We told him this; he said "Oh a C ain't that bad." Tuesday he fell into a liquor store. Seeing the chips, he screamed at the cashier, claiming that snacks are not liquor: the store was "false advertising." He pulled a gun, "Give me the money in the tray and the police won't know." He went home and buried the money, hoping it would grow a dollar tree. We planted an actual money tree in the spot where he buried the cash. "I told y'all."
Old Millennial
- Typing class
I learned to type while I was in elementary school. Or rather, I was forced to learn. My whole class would go to a computer room and pick away at typing games that tracked your speed and with the keyboards covered so we had to memorize the letters. There were lots of kids in my class that could regularly type faster than 100 words per minute, but no matter what I did I couldn't make it that high. Years later, here I am again, only now my classmates are online.
De Es
- A Beautiful Moment
In my childhood home my bedroom was on the backside of the house with the forest outside my window. We lived near the water and a new bridge was being built. One morning, a morning which is burned into my memories, I woke up to a beautiful relaxing fog, the rising sun beams cutting through the trees, my window cracked open, the sound of the boat horns in the distance below. I stayed in bed and silently soaked in the moment, comfortably in my blankets, fully taking in the grand beauty of it all.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
- from "Braiding Sweetgrass"
Stories are among our most potent tools for restoring the land as well as our relationship to the land. We need to unearth the old stories that live in a place and begin to create new ones, for we are storymakers, not just storytellers. All stories are connected, new ones woven from the threads of the old.
Xorzenth
- Success is No Accident
Famous soccer athlete, Pele who appeared to be born with plenty of natural talent, continues this quote by adding "It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing."
Myself
- Comforting a Friend
If you are ever fortunate enough to be the aid of a friend in their time of need remember this: what they say while they're suffering may not be the truth. They might say awful, mean, and hurtful things. They might criticize you or someone you care about. While they mean these things, they don't mean as much as what comes after. If you are able to comfort them, what they say after they've let everything out will be one of the most honest things you've ever heard.
