Here comes the girl from the capital city!

I don’t blame you for being you, but you can’t blame me for hating it.

—Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More “Touch Me” (via mrjoshua79)

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So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.

—Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

—Kahlil Gibran (via quote-book)

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: You don’t give up.

—Anne Lamott (via quote-book)

Extreme situations don’t change us, they reveal us. But the worst is when we can’t even see what we’ve allowed ourselves to become - or rather, we can’t see what parts of ourselves we’ve allowed to grow out of control. It can happen to anyone.

—Jay-Z (via ahorton92)

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Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience because we are afraid to tell the truth to others; we take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

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(via blogut)

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

—Henry David Thoreau (via ruineshumaines)

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

—Bell Hooks (via mishproductions)

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