O veganismo tem muitas vantagens


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... e o São João foi bom, obrigada.
O costumeiro concerto (de borliú) na Casa da Música, umas marteladinhas, o visionamento de uns quantos balões... e na cama à meia-noite. Maravilha!

No translation needed / incontestável

The more you know who you are and what you want,
the less you let things upset you.
in Lost in Translation

...

do Ópio


W. Wordsworth e S. T. Coleridge 

[…] Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between;
And flowery beds that slumbrous influence kest,
From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green,
Where never yet was creeping creature seen. […]

[…] I in oblivion will your sorrows steep,
 Your cares, your toils; will steep you in a sea
Of full delight: O come, ye weary wights, to me!
With me, you need not rise at early dawn,
To pass the joyless day in various stounds; […]
James Thomson, in Castle of Indolence 

"[...] What was it that did in reality make me an opium-eater? That affection which finally drove me into the habitual use of opium, what was it? Pain was it? No, but misery. Casual overcasting of sunshine was it? No, but blank desolation. Gloom was it that might have departed? No, but settled and abiding darkness. [...] Coleridge's bodily affliction was simple rheumatism. Mine, which intermittingly raged for ten years, was rheumatism in the face combined with toothache. [...] Too often the dying father could not fail to read in his own lifelong experience, that, whilst seeking special protection for his children, he might himself be introducing amongst them a separate and imminent danger." [...]
Thomas de Quincey, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Eu sou daquelas pessoas que se interessa verdadeiramente por uma boa conversa

 A chatice é quando o(a) suposto(a) interlocutor(a) opta por se remeter ao silêncio. Mesmo assim eu continuo a palrar (sempre na esperança que algo que eu diga possa inspirar o dito cujo(a) e, assim, a conversa tomar um rumo mais gratificante para ambos.
O artigo está aqui.

Os 6 hábitos de pessoas altamente empáticas / Outrospective people



1) Develop curiosity about strangers

2) Move beyond limiting assumptions (challenge prejudices and discover communalities)

3) Play ‘extreme sports’ i.e. take time to experience the lives of others.

4) Cultivate the art of conversation

5) Inspire Mass Action and Social Change

6) Be Ambitiously Imaginative.

Mais aqui. E aqui.

Para aqueles que não tiram prazer real de uma dieta (saudável) alternativa...


... então, my friends, go back to the old one. But don't feel guilty about it. Aqui
Sensatez acima de tudo, pois, na verdade, fundamentalismos deste nível só poderão prejudicar o próprio (a priori)

Colossal


Mais, aqui.