The Hunger Games Renaissance.
The Hunger Games (2012), dir. Gary Ross
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), dir. Francis Lawrence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part. 2 (2015), dir. Francis LawrenceIt’s quiet, absorbing work that helps take my mind off my troubles. I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink, adding touches of color to our previously black and yellowish book. His face takes on a special look when he concentrates. His usual easy expression is replaced by something more intense and removed that suggests an entire world locked away inside him. I’ve seen flashes of this before: in the arena, or when he speaks to a crowd, or that time he shoved the Peacekeepers’ guns away from me in District 11. I don’t know quite what to make of it. I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don’t notice much because they’re so blond. But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks
One afternoon Peeta stops shading a blossom and looks up so suddenly that I start, as though I were caught spying on him, which in a strange way maybe I was. But he only says, “You know, I think this is the first time we’ve ever done anything normal together.”
“Yeah,” I agree. Our whole relationship has been tainted by the Games. Normal was never a part of it. “Nice for a change.”
Each afternoon he carries me downstairs for a change of scenery and I unnerve everyone by turning on the television
TANGLED (2010) Dir. Byron Howard, Nathan Greno
“All at once, everything looks different, now that I see you.”
i’m.gonna be posting random rants here my thoughts should be safe here ayt?
Between all of your doubts and uncertainties with yourself, I still hope you find an assurance that everything will be alright in the end. That you will have some time to breathe to go out of your dark room. You may not be sure of what you are doing or what you are going through right now, but I still hope you find peace amidst it all.
And I wish someday, all of those “what ifs” and “maybes” of yours may turn into “this is what I’ve prayed for”.
Well, for now, I just wish you goodluck. Please always be safe and keep fighting, brave fella!
We can stay a thousand years. No one would find us.
We’d be pretty old.
bran, whispering to himself: [strategically propping his wheelchair in convenient corners to lock dead eyes with any new person showing up to winterfell] this is gonna be so fucking funny
Socrates, considered one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When Socrates heard that the oracle had made such a comment, he believed that the statement was wrong.
Socrates said:
“I know one thing: that I know nothing.”
How can the smartest man on earth know nothing? I heard this paradoxical wisdom for the first time from my school teacher when I was 14 or 15. It made such an impact on me that I used Socrates’s quote as my learning strategy.
To me, “I know nothing” means that you might be a wise person, but still, you know nothing. You can still learn from everything and everyone. One thing that I like better than learning from my mistakes is learning from other people’s mistakes. Over the years, I’ve been blessed to have great mentors, teachers, family, and friends that taught me about life.
What you will find below is a list of the most important things I learned from other people and books. Some of the lessons took me a long time to learn—but if I had had to learn these things all by myself, it would have taken me a lot longer.
We might learn things quickly, but we often forget them at the same rate—and sometimes we need to remind ourselves of what we’ve learned.
Here are 25 of those reminders that others taught me.
