Marie Curie’s century-old radioactive notebook still requires lead box. She was working with bottles of polonium and radium in her pockets all the time. The most common isotope of radium has a half-life of 1,601 years. It’ll be radioactive for more than another century! (Source)
sometimes making tea is less about drinking it and more ab it keeping you company
““Getting away from it all,” many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.”
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“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (via philosophybits)
My book is finally out! It’s called Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously and you can get it wherever books are sold! Amazon actually SOLD OUT of copies, but it should be available on other sites like B&N! Amazon should have more copies soon!
They’re doing their best.
“Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.”
— Buddha (via spiritualgateway)
“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.” – Friedrich Nietzsche