I was watching Oprah today and, because he’s everywhere on the news, Randy Pausch was on. Along with Dr. Mehmet Oz. If you haven’t heard of either, you haven’t been watching the news. Wikipedia ‘em both. Randy Pausch is the famous professor dying of pancreatic cancer, whose powerful last lecture has become famous universally. Dr. Mehmet [...]
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“If your legs are tired, you stop. If you can’t walk, you sit down. If you sit down, someone might come to hold you up. That’s how we live.”
(Il Gun, in 두구셰요/Who Are You, as translated by Javabeans at www.dramabeans.com)
Fortunate Son, by 이송열/Lee Seung Yeol, on the OST of 두구셰요
I think that quotes’ pretty excellent. [...]
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Actress Park Jung Ah’s mother has been in a debilitated state for a long time now. Her collapse left her without any awareness of her surroundings and unable to communicate…she also last half of her memory (slight error in translation…not one minute, but one half).
Its true, you always wonder “what if.” What if you had been able [...]
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“Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, sometimes our visions are clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears.”
(Read it somewhere. Its pretty amazing and strangely calming. Makes a great deal of sense).
What I’m listening to: Gi Da Rim, by Lee Seung Yeol (who [...]
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Tablo, lead rapper of Epik High.
Here’s a guy who followed his dreams and made it happen….its inspiring enough, and consider how brave he was to leave Stanford and struggle for years. He never knew if it would work out or not, and all odds were against him, but he kept trying and trying and trying. And [...]
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“One day, the body asked the heart…..
When I’m hurt the doctor heals me, but if you’re hurt then who will heal you?
So then the heart said….
I have to heal by myself.
Is that why whenever someone is hurt, they have their own special way of healing it?”
(My Lovely Samsoon)
Amazingly simple yet touching words….
how do I [...]
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“Inside the chocolate case is the life of a person. In Forrest Gump, the main character’s mother says “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’ll get.” Whatever I do or pick up, changes the chocolates inside…..There were good ones and there were bad ones. But there’s nothing I can do [...]
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