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This is actually kind of the story of my relationship...

Ideal Relationship Progression:

1. Meet. Become best friends through shared interests/perspectives/stages in life. 2. Establish fierce emotional support for the other’s hopes/dreams/ambitions. 3. Somehow, just happen to start making out with each other one day. Then all the days. 4. Get a dog.

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I want to be a star or a tigress or the night sky but all I am is sad and in bed and eating too much pizza

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I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien (Gandalf the White, Lord of the Rings) (via l0rd0ftherings)

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me: like I know this is incorrect but I still just have this feeling that if i keep sitting here not writing i will keep improving as a writer and one day i will just start writing again and everything will be gold

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“She was a person you would not be surprised to find sitting by herself in a corner of the world where she didn’t belong, writing things in a notebook to prevent the rise of panic.”

Alice Munro  (via langleav)

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me on January 1: 2016 will be a good year

me on January 14: nevermind

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things toddlers and i have in common

- need naps - will scream ‘dog’ when there’s a dog - cry too much - screaming - ???? - need to be held often

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The human body is 70% water so we’re basically cucumbers with anxiety.

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no offense but I’ve decided I’m gonna stop being sad and start being unbelievably powerful, creative, and full of love & light

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When anxiety sets in like a fever, cold and hot waves, chills, be calm. Know it for what it is: anxiety. Do not explain it away by blaming any particular incident, experience, for then it becomes magnified. When depression suffocates you like a London fog, think that the cause is not as great as you may think. A small defeat, a small frustration, a small discord may set it off. You must see the transitoriness of moods. Beware of exaggerated reactions to harshness, brutality, ignorance, selfishness. Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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It’s 2016. You need motivation? No, what you need is discipline.  IT’S TIME TO FOCUS. Force yourself to do things. Force yourself to get up early, make your bed, go get ready, and go. Force yourself to make plans for the day, and follow through with all those plans. Force yourself to get to class early so you can look over the material. Force yourself to pay attention in class and turn off your phone or at least put it on silent. Stop texting your friends and going on Instagram in class. You are wasting your time, so why even bother going to class if your are going to be distracted? Be selfish. Stop giving your time to people that do not matter. YOUR TIME IS SO SO PRECIOUS. STOP WASTING IT! This is the most important thing that you can do right now, take care of you and your education. Stop being distracted by the world and it’s never ending problems. This is the time that you need to put toward yourself because you are the greatest investment of your life. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. EVERYDAY is a chance to wake up and give your 150%. EXHAUST yourself. That is the only way to give your all. At the end of the day, you should be exhausted from working so much, from reading so much, from exercising so much. Don’t go home because you are tired. Do whatever you need to get done and don’t come home until it’s all done. Stay late at the library. You feel tired? Good. That is how you know you are giving it your best. Go to the gym, and give your work out your all. When you go home, you should feel like you are drained. You should feel like you have nothing left to give because you gave it your all. Because then, you can be proud of yourself and everything you have achieved. Giving it your all is what matters. Give your all every single day. Discipline your mind and your body and you will become successful. You fall back one day? That is O.K., try the next day. You are human, so accept your mistakes. However, love yourself enough to know that you will never giving. THIS IS IT. THIS IS YOUR LIFE. Right now, no matter what circumstances we are all in, is what matters. Take advantage of today. Write down your dreams and force yourself to work toward them, one day at a time.  IT’S TIME TO FOCUS. THIS is your year. This is your life. One day at a time baby. One day at a time. Go ahead and don’t stop.

(via not-now-im-studying)

yes!!

(via word-tea)

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Burg Eltz  by  Hannes Becker

(Eltz Castle is a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier,Germany. It is still owned by a branch of the same family (the Eltz family) that lived there in the 12th century, 33 generations ago.)

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I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.

Haruki Murakami (via moon-quotes)

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I was trying to figure out why so often I will talk about how I enjoyed a book immediately after I’ve finished it, but then when I look back on the goodreads ratings or my posts on those books, I’m like the book really wasn’t that good why did I make such a big deal about it?

I think its because I can really enjoy whatever I’m reading/watching while I’m reading/watching it, still aware of the questionable quality or issues with it. And then after a period of time I don’t feel an attachment to that enjoyment it gave me–probably because I know I’m never going to read/watch it again–so I’m just left with those criticisms.

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just once i wish i could get to the end of a year and look back on it and think ‘wow what a great year’ or at least ‘wow this year wasn’t shit’

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Those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.

Francois Lelord, Hector & The Search for Happiness (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)