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This castle was my neighbor for the weekend #vscocam (at Edinburgh Castle)

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May the road rise up to meet you #vscocam (at The Burren, Co Clare, Ireland)

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finding color in a cafe on a cloudy day #vscocam #UStoUK #studyabroad (at Bramleys Coffee House)

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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.

J.D. Salinger, “Letter to Jean Miller” (via wordsnquotes)

the eastern coast of England via plane window - by far one of the coolest sights ✈️✨ (at 30,000 feet)

and so it begins 🇬🇧 // #vscocam #UStoUK #studyabroad (at Edge Hill University)

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (via bookaddictiion)

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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Anaïs Nin (via rabbitinthemoon)

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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via wordsnquotes)

proverbs31v25

I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott (via proverbs31v25)

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1. Date a boy who makes you happy, but marry him only if he makes you laugh deep-belly rumbles that hurt your ribs as they expand outwards. Date him when he sees that you’re hurting and he gives you a moment to feel that pain like a handprint spreading across your consciousness, marry him only if he can make you smile even while you’re gross sobbing. The world is not a kind place. You will feel a lot of pain. Make sure you are with someone who makes it all bearable. Humor is an excellent gauge of intelligence. Life gets boring. Find someone who makes the banal interesting. 2. Make sure he has scars on the back of his hands, it’s a good sign he has experience either fighting or making things - creation is an act of selflessness and bruised knuckles are a good sign he knows how to defend himself. You’ve got too much soul to be handled by someone who has never been passionate. If he’s never thrown a punch, let him at least have tasted the insanity of bringing an idea into existence. Rough palms are better than soft ones, they have been salted by this earth and made into leather. Callouses are evidence he has lived, that he has broken skin and been in pain over and over and over again and still came back to the source of it. People rub against each other. Don’t marry him if he can’t handle even a little blister. 3. Before you say yes, get him angry. See him scared, see him wanting, see him sick. Stress changes a person. Find out if he drinks and if he does, get him drunk - you’ll learn more about his sober thoughts. Discover his addictions. See if he puts you in front of them. You can’t change people, baby girl. If they are made one way, it doesn’t just wear off. If you hate how he acts when he’s out of it now, you’re going to hate it much worse eight years down the road. You might love him to bits but it doesn’t change that some people just don’t fit. 4. Trust your instincts. If he ever makes you feel unsafe, don’t make excuses, just get up and leave. That’s all there is to it. It’s better to be safe than sorry. 5. If he puts money before you, he’ll keep pushing you to the bottom of the pile until you become his last priority. It’s one thing if he can’t afford what you want, it’s another if he has the cash but won’t spring for a box of chicken mcnuggets. Money and love are arch enemies. 62% of divorces occur due to economic strain. Make sure keeping you is more important than his 401k. 6. How a man treats animals is a good indicator of how he treats children. If you see him raise a hand to a dog, pack your things into a little black bag. Animals at their worst are only half as annoying as a toddler on their best behaviour. Your kids will be beautiful, but they will also misbehave. Same goes for waiters and hotel maids - if he’s rude to those who are working for minimum wage, it says a lot about how he sees himself. Patience is rare and so important. If he’s not forgiving to a dog, he’s not good for your kids. 7. If he isn’t in awe of you, he doesn’t deserve you. You are my little girl and you were born perfect. If he can’t see that, it’s his loss. There is someone who thinks your flaws power his heart. Be strong. If he asks you to change, be like like rock of your birthstone, do not waver. You are wondrous just the way that you are.

My father’s recipe for the man I should marry (part 1/2 of a series). /// r.i.d (via isecretlylike1d)

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when you’re feeling down:

take a deep breath. then another one. breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth like your mom used to tell you when you weren’t feeling good. consider that the air you breathe may have been exhaled by Abraham Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address, and then breathed in by the leaves of a mighty oak tree. it could have mingled with the perfume of Cleopatra. it could have given flight to the monarch butterflies as they float above continents. you are participating in an incredible story.

take a sip of water. take two, it’s good for you. consider that the water you drink may have fallen as rain on the head of tyrannosaurus rex. it might have sprayed George Washington and his men as they crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day. it may have washed Leonardo’s brushes after he painted The Last Supper. you’ve got history within you.

tonight, take in the stars. consider that the earth has hurled through space at 67,108 miles an hour, spinning you round and round at 1000 miles an hour and got you where you are just in time to see that light reach it’s final destination, a billion years after it left its star. your eyes are the last place that little beam of light will go, after traveling so far to get to you. the light lives in you now.

take a look at your hands. move your fingers around. notice the muscles moving beneath your skin. consider what your hands are capable of. you could build a house or plant a flower. you could create music that’s never been heard before. you could write a letter. you could lace fingers with someone you love. rub your thumb and forefinger together. be slow and deliberate. notice the canyons and ridges of your fingertips. consider that nobody but you will ever feel exactly what you’re feeling. you are so special.

take a look at your life. consider how statistically improbable you are. the odds of a person being born to your parents, sitting in the room you’re in, with the background you have, knowing all the people you know, are slim to none. but here you are. you are a champion.

when you’re feeling down, remember that you are loved. sometimes things are hard and we struggle to put one foot in front of the other. but you are made to be great. as Jack Kerouac said, “Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.”