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Different isn't bad. It's just not the same.

Anne With An E

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These archaic humans loved, played, formed close friendships, competed for status and power- but so did chimpanzees, baboons and elephants. There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inklings that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books.

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

(Makes you wonder, doesn't it? That you may be home to extraordinary things, even if no one expects anything of you)

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I'm a Scorpio, and idk why people put themselves through the torture of drinking coffee everyday...like why??? My taste buds have not wronged you.

reblog this with your sign and if you like coffee or not

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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

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Oh, heart, you traitor.

Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

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The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

Amish Tripathi, the Secret of the Nagas

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She wasn't given wings to see the world from a tree.

Atticus

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My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Invictus, William Ernest Henley

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You threw me to the crows. It just turns out that I prefer them to you.

-Circe, Madeline Miller

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Not Now, Not Yet

They clap our backs, nod their heads

Look down and distant smile

When we tug at their t-shirts

And ask to be heard

Their gazes wander, and block their ears

Sneak a look at the television

They sit us down, telling us to talk

And in between, stand up when their phones ring

They tell us that you will do great things some day

That the world rests upon your hands

You will climb to the top and pull each other up

But keep pushing us down instead

They tell us that you are the future

And dive out of our thoughts

They think it is an excuse

For sizing us up, and declaring us not enough

Not yet, they say. Not now, they murmur

Have you ever thought that

We don't want to be the future

Because we need to be the present?

That we don't want to lead the world

But instead, just live in it?

That before we want to do things that are great

We just want to live in a world that is?

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Every rose has its thorns. People just have to find the one they are willing to bleed for.

-Anonymous

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Sometimes, it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no can imagine.

-The Imitation Game

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The Canvas

I stared at my canvas,

Unshakable, proud and bold

I swirled the colours around

And my story, I told

I started out with rose

Pouring my love

I added some white

The colour of my dove

I sprinkled some sky

Calling me wise

And a touch of yellow

For the sun to rise

I worked on it for days

And months and years

I wanted it to be perfect

The life I held so dear

Finally, one night

As bright as a ray

I felt complete

I stepped away

Staring back at me

Was my smile

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"Gravity is matter's response to loneliness."

- Alice Wu, The Half Of It

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"Love isn't patient and kind and humble. Love is messy and horrible and selfish and bold. It's not finding your perfect half. It's the trying and reaching and falling. Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a great one."

-Ellie Chu, The Half Of It

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"We judge ourselves by our intentions, and others by their actions."

-Stephen M.R Convey