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🍁 Autumn will bring prosperity.

🎃 Autumn will bring release.

🦉 Autumn will bring wisdom.

🔮 Autumn will bring peace.

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29•1•2018 What is this??? A new post from Issy??? What a concept! I’m really hoping to post more now that I’m settled here in Florence and I’ve finally set up my new bullet journal. Is there anything specific you want me to talk about when it comes to study abroad? Because I’m hoping to write some blog posts for y’all about my experience!

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Today I put my hand in my backpack and felt a stress ball and I was like “oh? I have a stress ball?” and I squeezed it and it was a pear and it exploded and now I’m much more stressed than I was earlier :/

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Friendly reminder to check you’re not holding tension in your body. Let your shoulders drop, unclench your hands and jaw. Take a deep breath. Much better.

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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

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as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

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Spending some time with 1 Corinthians 13 these past few days. The way Love is defined always leaves me in awe - there is so much we have yet to learn. This Love that doesn’t look like me, that moves and isn’t rigid, I want to pursue it, never lose sight of it. I want my words and thoughts and actions to be aligned with Love, like partners in a dance following each other’s every step. But You’re the one leading, because I know I can’t love fully on my own. And that’s the point. To learn to Love hand in hand with You.

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17.06.2018 Long time no post! Today I’ve been working on some math revision flashcards and some more physics notes.

🎵 The xx- loud places

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America is the world’s largest terrorist state.

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once you stop fantasizing about that ideal version of yourself and start working towards becoming that person by setting your alarm clock earlier and actually going to the gym and actually volunteering at places and actually eating healthier and not procrastinating and working just a little bit harder you’ll realize that it was so easy all along. becoming your ideal self will only ever exist in your mind until you make the decision to work towards becoming that person. get up!! get going!! it’s now or never!! there is no light at the end of the tunnel!! get that flashlight and pave your own path bitch bc no one else is going to do it for u!!

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In case you haven’t heard of this, this is a site that lets you see all residency programs (with filters) and fellowship programs which is nice if you know you want to stay in a particular region or to look at programs you haven’t heard of. You can search for both residency and fellowship programs together which is helpful if you know you want to do fellowship.

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“If you do what you love,you’ll never work a day in your life”

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I do not understand this “male privilege" bullshit.

What. Fucking. Privileges. Do. Men. Have.???????

Name them. I swear, I challenge you to name these “male privileges" and be able to prove them. 

Come on, I fucking dare you. 

Name them!

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