“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” -John Steinbeck
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There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (via thoughtsdetained)
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We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, ‘You can be anything,’ and we heard, ‘You have to be everything.’
Courtney Martin (via searchingfor-peace)
(Source: oh--sfidalecosebelle, via thoughtsdetained)
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Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you’re afraid you’re going to miss something. But what you don’t realize is that, by not making a decision, you’re missing it all.
Claire Cook, Life’s a Beach (via thoughtsdetained)
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think i’m going for a walk now /
think i’m going for a walk now /
i feel a little unsteady /
i don’t want nobody to follow me /
‘cept maybe you /
i could make you happy you know /
if you weren’t already /
i could do a lot of things /
and i do /
Ani Difranco, Untouchable Face (via thoughtsdetained)
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You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
Scott Adams (via thoughtsdetained)
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Some hard things, two or three, had already happened to me but not to him so it was a shock when he found out maybe life isn’t one long basketball game.
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (via thoughtsdetained)
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Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.
Steve Martin, Shopgirl (via thoughtsdetained)
