"One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel."

Steven Furtick  

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"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

Gary Provost

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"My biggest problem is that there is simply no creativity in movies with black casts at all. White people are 12 year old wizards, teens with crushes on vampires and werewolves, fighting blue people, talking fish and toys, and yet the best we get is a movie about the genteel south? Someone please make a movie about two black folks falling in love at a rock concert or a feature film about Storm from X-Men discovering her power, or something, ANYTHING, that goes beyond Black Pain (TM) / White Saviour (TM) movies. Sheesh."

A commenter on “Why I’m Just Saying No to ‘The Help’” (via atrapforfools)

FUCKING THIS.

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Pretty much. 

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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his(her) dreams, and endeavors to live the life which (s)he has imagined, (s)he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

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"Because if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do—if you want to be extraordinary—you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you do be."

Kelly Cutrone

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"But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin."

Aldous Huxley 

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"You couldn’t handle my undivided attention."

Dwight Schrute (The Office)

gpoy me to people who get mad that I only care a little bit about their dramatics and really just wanna go back to watching Merlin

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somelittlejoy:

Tayarisha (by kat.clark)

this is still my favorite. why do i always look a little scared? this is why people don’t talk to me. it’s not you, it’s just that i’m not wearing my glasses, that’s why i look sad and angry. Sangry.

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"My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace."

Patricia Highsmith 

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