Have more than you show, Speak less than you know

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson

[introvertunites]

I came across this on tumblr today - credit to purplebuddhaproject - and it reminded me how much this attitude helps me survive being around people. I hope it rings a chime with someone else.

x

[cinemagorgeous]

By artist Dane Madgwick.

[retrogamingblog]

[tiny-facts]

Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around, because that’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace or stray from.

Unknown (via psych-facts)

[words-of-emotion]

Don’t get discouraged by what you’re going through. Your time is coming. Where you are is not where you’re going to stay.

https://twitter.com/goodquoteco (via words-of-emotion)

[tiny-facts]

A failure is not a loss. It’s a gain. You learn. You change. You grow.

Michael Barata

(via psych-facts)

[words-of-emotion]

Prove yourself to yourself not others.

https://twitter.com/goodquoteco (via words-of-emotion)

[tiny-facts]

Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your mind and heart.

Unknown (via psych-facts)

[post-metal]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Sun Spot

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

This is what the Twin Jet Nebula looked like in a photo from 1997:

And now …

It’s amazing how NASA continues to give us better and better images of the universe. Merging galaxies NGC 6240 in 2008:

And today:

Science, you’re the best. Oh, and the explanation behind those merging galaxies and their black holes is wild.

Follow @the-future-now

[techinsider]

Basically, house cats would take over the world.

In Alan Weisman’s 2007 book “The World Without Us,” the author investigates what would happen if humanity mysteriously vanished from the globe. The world we’ve built would start to decay immediately, though traces of our past would last for thousands or even millions of years.

But we haven’t even touched upon the nuclear power plant meltdowns, buildings being cracked open from the inside, and basically the fact that the entire atmosphere would become a “mini chemical nuclear winter”.

[love-abia]

Fading into Daybreak by Abi Ashra (Tumblr)

[just--space]

Light, dark and the stuff between.

js

[words-of-emotion]

The strongest people are those who feel pain, but understand it and accept it.

Unknown (via words-of-emotion)

[words-of-emotion]

Once you realize you can learn something from everyone, everyone becomes a teacher.

Unknown (via words-of-emotion)

[itscolossal]

Ash Dome: A Secret Tree Artwork in Wales Planted by David Nash in 1977