You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Carl Jung (via fyp-psychology)
Quotes
You can’t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but inequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that’s already happened … There’s not enough writing for women or people of colour. It frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean productions – a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it’s outrageous because it’s putting a lot of women out of work.
Christopher Eccleston pointing out inequalities in media representation in a polite and collected manner, and generally continuing to be a superb human being. (x)
When you saw “The Hunger Games,” who did you root for? Katniss and her beleaguered community? Or people in the Capitol wearing pink eyelashes and obliviously eating until they vomited while the people in other districts starved?
Ok, next question: When you saw the protests in Baltimore, who did you feel for? Because if what you did was look down on the protestors for disturbing the peace, break out the rainbow wigs and sparkle mascara because you might be from the Capitol.
Why You Might Throw a Brick Through a Store Window
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White folks can empathize with fictional white people but the minute they are faced with actual dystopian shit happening to people of color, they do not care.
This country has never stopped seeing Black people as property to exploit. We are not human. We are not people. We are the permanent racial underclass. And as such it angers those who want to keep the status quo intact.
(via sourcedumal)
I cannot rid the entire world of noxious problems, but I can patiently cultivate the good earth around my own two feet and grow what I wish to see in my own back yard.
Jack Nordby (via herdirtylittleheart)
But I don’t want small talk. Text me, and without saying hello, tell me why you got so angry at your sister this morning. Tell me why you have a scar shaped like Europe on the left side of your neck. Send me paragraphs about the time you spent at your grandmother’s house that one summer. Call me when I’m half asleep and tell me why you believe in God. Tell me about the first time you saw your dad cry. Go on for hours about things that may not seem important because I promise that I’ll be hanging on to every word you say. Tell me everything. I don’t want someone who just talks about the weather.
(via jazminesjizz)
We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.
Olivia Wilde, Her: Love in the Modern Age (via wordsnquotes)
You must not reduce yourself to a puddle just because the person you like is afraid to swim and you are a fierce sea to them; because there will be someone who was born with love of the waves within their blood, and they will look at you with fear and respect.
T.B. LaBerge // Things I’m Still Learning at 25 (via
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I need to write this down and put it everywhere. Every mirror. Every drawer. In my car. Write it on my heart.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You are the vibrations that you attract. You are the people whom enter your life. You are the life that you witness.
(via spiritualpoet)
Learn to celebrate your existence without qualifying and excusing all the things you wish you could change.
Look into the mirror without pulling out all the things you hate from inside of you.
Picking them apart.
Measuring them.
Causing them to expand and then constricting them when they do.
You’ve lived for too long in a world of mixed signals and contradictory expectations.
Realise that you are not made of clay and you were never meant to simply fill the cracks and spaces in and between those around you.
Look at the fact that your Self has prevailed despite all the times you’ve tried to change it and realise that this is not failure but proof of your resilience.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat.
This is what self care looks like today. (via olivialaurel)