Don’t get some chip on your shoulder about how disenfranchised you are because all you have is a liberal arts degree and 100 Top Ramens. It will make you sound silly and careless. Some people have been systemically disadvantaged their entire lives and now they live in their cars and don’t even have Bottom Ramen.
Thu, 17th May — 1 note
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Mon, 14th May — 31 notes
Choosing your calling based solely on your talents won’t always guarantee you happiness. If you act only on what you should do without heed for what you want to do, you’re nothing more than a machine, a phenomenon. It’s not how a human being should live.
— Fate Zero S2E19
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Thu, 3rd May — 9,991 notes
I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young.
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Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell (via juneandafter)
Hahahahahaha.
(via commanderspock)
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[U]gly people” will never be put in fashion magazines. At least not in my lifetime, the way things are still going. So….I guess we’re doomed, is what I’m saying. Teach your girls not to look to magazines for aspirational images. That’s the solution. They’re just trying to sell you shit.
Wed, 2nd May — 0 notes
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Thu, 12th Apr — 9 notes
Traveling – seeing new sights, hearing new music, and meeting new people – is exciting and exhilarating. But when we have no home to return to where someone will ask us, “How was your trip?” we might be less eager to go. Traveling is joyful when we travel with the eyes and ears of those who love us, who want to see our slides and hear our stories.
This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we took and hear about the friends we made. When we travel with the eyes and ears of the God who sent us, we will see wonderful sights, hear wonderful sounds, meet wonderful people … and be happy to return home.
This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we took and hear about the friends we made. When we travel with the eyes and ears of the God who sent us, we will see wonderful sights, hear wonderful sounds, meet wonderful people … and be happy to return home.
— Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
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If you want to be miserable, my theory is that you’re far more likely to do it successfully at home. Take the path most traveled. Travel down it so far and so often that you can do it blindfolded. Travel it with the same people, again and again, in a car pool, or a commuter train from the suburbs. You may not fail immediately, but by the time you hit mid-career you will be so bored that you start fantasizing about changing careers.
Thu, 12th Apr — 0 notes
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Tue, 31st Jan — 0 notes
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous. As Byron has said:
Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet
The unexpected death of some old lady.
The painless death of a pious relative at an advanced age is not an evil. But an earnest desire for her death on the part of her heirs is not reckoned a proper feeling, and the law frowns on even the gentlest attempts to expedite her departure.
— C.S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring”
20 New Year's Resolutions for 20 somethings ↘
“Start preparing now to get over the fact that Facebook is probably going to change again in six months. You’re not going to deactivate your account. You don’t know how.”
“Wait 30 seconds before you look up a fact you can’t remember on your phone, and try to remember it using your brain. This is what the olden days were like.”
“Cut one person out of your life who you truly do not like and add one person who you truly do. Note: not on Facebook, on Earth.”
Tue, 3rd Jan — 23 notes
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Sun, 1st Jan — 5 notes
I don’t have the latitude to be a real elitist, so I’ve got to be nice.
— my friend, on not being Sherlock Holmes
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Fri, 30th Dec — 9 notes
Any religion that would prohibit life-saving surgery simply because it goes against the literal word of the Bible can be nothing other than a cult. This is an abuse of dogma that crosses the line.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
my new years resolution is to be braver and stronger and maybe not fuck shit up as much as i usually do and take responsibility when i do and remind myself that the sun does not shine only for me and we’re all doing the best we can here so i should just take it easy probably
HERE HERE!
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