“this is a blank map that lets you go as far as you want in any direction, with no questions asked, but it’s no help at all if you want to know if you’re going the right way.” - storypeople”
“be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” -lao tzu”

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; you must do the thing you think you cannot do”
Eleanor Roosevelt (via anglophilemeetsbibliophile)

The Frenemy.: Things I Would Like In Five Years

thefrenemy:

  • a week of good hair every month
  • nail polish that never chips but removes easily
  • a faucet that produces, when you want it to, Snapple
  • a tub of hummus the size of my body
  • gay marriage legal, celebrity marriage a state by state kind of thing
  • the ability to make my favorite television characters…

well. i feel crappy.

julie911: May I never find myself yawning at life. — Toyohiko Kagawa

julie911:

May I never find myself yawning at life. 
— Toyohiko Kagawa

“

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

”
Howard Zinn (via julie911)
“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you’ll always be alright.”
“Breakable You” by Brian Morton (via julie911)