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Finnish bread advertisement, hinted to me by anonymous submitter. “Only in this country you can avertise bread this way.” This piece has no subtitles but here’s translation:

Father: “Well are you hungry or not?” KOVAA KUIN ELÄMÄ (HARD AS LIFE)

(And if you’re interested in the last part the guy says that you can get jälkiuunileipä or after-oven-bread in smaller bits too)

Atlas Mountains by untidy souls on Flickr.

Last rays in a snowy forest

niiloi

That subsidizing capital accumulation has become the only readily available way for most to act on compassion for others is perverse.

Mathew Snow ‘Against Charity’

I frequently hear the same yearning expressed in my consulting room – the wish for the world to disappear, for a cessation of any feelings, whether positive or negative, that intrude on the patient’s peace, alongside the painful awareness that the world’s demands are waiting on the way out. You feel burnout when you’ve exhausted all your internal resources, yet cannot free yourself of the nervous compulsion to go on regardless. Life becomes something that won’t stop bothering you. Among its most frequent and oppressive symptoms is chronic indecision, as though all the possibilities and choices life confronts you with cancel each other out, leaving only an irritable stasis.

Josh Cohen

Early in the 19th century, Sydney Smith, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review, remarked that if we had made the same progress in the culinary arts as we have made in education, we should still be eating soup with our hands.

Joseph Epstein

At times it seems we are living our lives as if we are going to write an autobiography after we're done.

- Experience

You'll never read the following obituary: "Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place."

Charles Wheelan (or anybody, really)