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Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.

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Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.

T.W (via the-perfect-aesthetic)

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Life is too short to worry about what people who exist in a free app in your phone think of you.

Debra Lynne (via deeplifequotes)

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Do not protect my feelings if I ask your opinion: I’m asking because I’m unsure; I’m asking because I know something’s wrong. Tell me the truth. Be brutal. Help me.

Tennessee Williams, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

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The universe is under no obligation to adhere to our expectations.

Phil Plait

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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via wordsnquotes)

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Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up.

Jonathan Tropper (via quotemadness)

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You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. That is why geometrically speaking the circle is a one. Everything comes to you from the other. You have to be able to reach the other.

Louise Bourgeois, a diary entry featured in Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

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If you look back only at your mistakes, you’d think you were an idiot. If you look back only at your wiser choices, you’d think you were infallible. But if you look back on everything, you realize you’re a human being who has been through a lot, grown a lot, is always still learning, and improving as time goes by.

Doe Zantamata (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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You don’t need to visit Hell to know it’s hot. Though the closest you’ve been to paradise has been staring at the covers of postcards, approaching the opposite isn’t the answer. Reciprocate what is truth. Reciprocate love. The only things guaranteed when living at the mercy of ghosts and empty promises are dead ends.

http://islandofsuir.tumblr.com/post/167069096782/you-dont-need-to-visit-hell-to-know-its-hot (via remanence-of-love)

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Sometimes I forget how young I am, I have time. There’s enough time.

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I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.

Sabrina, Dir. Billy Wilder (via wordsnquotes)

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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Jane Austen, Persuasion (via wordsnquotes)

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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (via wordsnquotes)

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I’d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)