vaspim:

this whole notion that guys who wear pink are suddenly feminine is so ridiculous. women aren’t portrayed as manly if they wear blue??? it reminds me of this quote i once read by gwen sharp, “Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.”

"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself."

Leo Tolstoy (via explore-blog)

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"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

Alan Watts  (via thesecretsits)

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"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

 Vincent Van Gogh  (via nocomplainings)

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"Let them miss you. Sometimes when you’re always available, they take you for granted because they think you’ll always stay."

Anonymous  (via soul-surfer)

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"Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75"

Benjamin Franklin (via bodhi-sukha)

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"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

Natalie Portman (via emotional-algebra)

"I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here."

Charles Bukowski (via colinfirth)

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" Very little is needed to make a happy life. "

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (via quotedojo)

"As Americans, we have this naïve assumption that people all over the world are struggling and way behind us. They’re not. Sweden and South Korea have more advanced high speed internet networks. Japan has the most advanced trains and transportation systems. Norwegians make more money. The biggest and most advanced plane in the world is flown out of Singapore. The tallest buildings in the world are now in Dubai and Shanghai. Meanwhile, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world."

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America http://bananenplanet.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/10-things-most-americans-dont-know-about-america/ (via curlycherie)

There are two areas where the USA is way out in front of the rest of the world: war and prison. The technology of killing is the main investment of US national energy, and of course the semi-public semi-private incarceration economy is flourishing while schools and roads crumble. In many other quality-of-life terms — housing, healthcare, public transportation, public access to technology, mental health support, support for people with disabilities, childcare, primary education, maternity support, social safety net — I think a lot of US Americans personally know that things are not exactly rosy but see no options for fixing it.

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that’s american exceptionalism for ya

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