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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:15:30 -0400

"Don’t let yourself be a victim of your negative thoughts. They’re just thoughts, not reality. Don’t..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:12:31 -0400

“Don’t let yourself be a victim of your negative thoughts. They’re just thoughts, not reality. Don’t let them destroy you.”

- (via stevenrosas)

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:07:53 -0400

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:06:29 -0400

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Mon, 13 May 2013 10:28:26 -0400

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Wed, 08 May 2013 22:28:54 -0400

"You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:45:08 -0400

“You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.”

- Warsan Shire (via modernise)

"You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:41:06 -0400

“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch.

Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy.

You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than just preferences, and these details on the surface, you can change anytime you like.

If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way.

Set fire to your old self. It’s not needed here. It’s too busy shopping, gossiping about others, and watching days go by and asking why you haven’t gotten as far as you’d like. This old self will die and be forgotten by all but family, and replaced by someone who makes a difference.

Your new self is not like that. Your new self is the Great Chicago Fire—overwhelming, overpowering, and destroying everything that isn’t necessary.

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- Julien Smith (via lunaoki)

"I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:56:34 -0400

“I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart.”

- Marianna Paige (via outcamethesun)

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:23:49 -0400

"I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:14:01 -0400

““I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.””

- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via rabbitinthemoon)

"But be careful…You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:42:51 -0400

“But be careful…You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love.”

- Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (via topographia)

"Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:42:22 -0400

“Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.”

- Joyce Carol Oates (via topographia)

"I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:40:14 -0400

“I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home.”

- Andrea Gibson (via 24ribs)

"We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:58:19 -0400

“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?”

- Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras (136-137)

"After all, there were old tales told in plenty of the secret land of green good nights, before the..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:49:01 -0400

“After all, there were old tales told in plenty of the secret land of green good nights, before the yellow bird of dawning first flew over it from sea to sea and named it Scotland: there, when the first daughters of the folk lay with tree-gods, and wizards made themselves wives out of the flowers; there in that land all things were possible.”

- Colin Mackay, from ‘The Song of the Forest’ (via throughthenoisetothesea)

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:48:28 -0400

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:46:01 -0400

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”

- Lemony Snicket (via lilybaeum)

"You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:18:16 -0400

“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”

- Dear Sugar: The Future Has An Ancient Heart (via ignify)

"You poured into me and the cracks I was born with were settled and smoothed."

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:38:35 -0400

“You poured into me
and the cracks I was born with
were settled and smoothed.”

- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)