And if you look a little closer, you’ll see that if a person believes that life is terrible, they’ll constantly look for proof of this, to confirm their view of the world. They’ll find quotes and situations and events in their life and magnify them a hundred times. If a person believes that life is wonderful, they’ll look for the corresponding signage and behave in a similar manner to the previous person with their view of the world. Often, this is the same person on different days of the week.
“The important thing is: at the end of the day, I don’t owe the world a thin body in exchange for their acknowledgement and approval. I’m not a magically better or more worthy person because my pants size is smaller. If someone’s going to make a contingency for love and acceptance based on my weight, then they belong with all that toxic sludge I was eating back a few years ago— in the trash.” — Laci Green (via fallintomyowleyes)
“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.” — Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via commanderspock)
“There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not: everything eventually ends. As much as I looked forward to this day, I’ve always disliked endings. Last day of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend. But endings are inevitable. Leaves fall, we close the book, you say good-bye. Today is one those days for us. Today we say good-bye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We’re moving on. But just because we’re leaving and that hurts, there are some people who are so much a part of us, they’ll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground, our North Star, and the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us. Always.” — Alexis Castle.
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” — Advice to Sylvia Plath, from her mother. (via lungs-)
"There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not: everything eventually ends. As much as I looked forward to this day, I’ve always disliked endings. Last day of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend. But endings are inevitable. Leaves fall, we close the book, you say good-bye. Today is one those days for us. Today we say good-bye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We’re moving on. But just because we’re leaving and that hurts, there are some people who are so much a part of us, they’ll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground, our North Star, and the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us. Always."