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You can ensure that your life always follows a happy course if you are able to follow the right path, and hold to what is right in all your thoughts and deeds.

Some advice on happiness and the ‘just’ life from Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic philosopher and Emperor for World Philosophy Day. (via oupacademic)

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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mary would have turned 257 years old this week. (via oupacademic)

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I’m good enough. But for me, I can get better

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Leading different lives, life still goes on in the context we set our minds to.

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You must encounter, confront life. Life loves the liver of it, ladies. It is for you to increase your virtues. There is that in the human spirit which will not be gunned down even by death. There is no person here who is over one year old who hasn’t slept with fear, or pain or loss or grief, or terror, and yet we have all arisen, have made whatever absolutions we were able to, or chose to, dressed, and said to other human beings, “Good morning. How are you? Fine, thanks.” Therein lies our chance toward nobleness—not nobility—but nobleness, the best of a human being is in that ability to overcome.

Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s Commencement Address at Wellesley College, 1982. (via vintagesevensisters)

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Hillary Diane Rodham at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts in her final year, 1969.

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“Never let your fear decide your fate.”

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“Let go of those who bring you down and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.”

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I found these gifs I made a while back for a site that’s not running anymore, so I thought I’d post them here. It’s a description of psychiatric symptoms and states of mind using a pink box and some other stuff. 

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These are so accurate

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Interesting! Just thought I’d share! 

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We love how people find different ways to articulate these psychological states because words aren’t always the easiest or clearest way to convey what someone is experiencing. Here’s some definitions from A Dictionary of Psychology, Fourth Edition (Oxford Reference):

dissociation: Partial or total disconnection between memories of the past, awareness of identity and of immediate sensations, and control of bodily movements, often resulting from traumatic experiences, intolerable problems, or disturbed relationships. 

depression: A mood state of sadness, gloom, and pessimistic ideation, with loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities, accompanied in severe cases by anorexia and consequent weight loss, insomnia (especially middle or terminal insomnia) or hypersomnia, asthenia, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, diminished ability to think or concentrate, or recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.

depersonalisation: A feeling of emotional detachment or estrangement from the perception of self, as if one were acting in a play or observing one’s physical and mental activities from without.

anxiety: A state of uneasiness, accompanied by dysphoria and somatic signs and symptoms of tension, focused on apprehension of possible failure, misfortune, or danger.

mania: (1) A mood disorder characterized by manic episodes. (2) An obsessional preoccupation with a particular idea or activity. 

apathy: Absence of emotion, interest, or enthusiasm. [From Greek apatheia indifference, from a- without + pathos feeling]

phobia: A persistent, irrational fear of an object, event, activity, or situation called a phobic stimulus, resulting in a compelling desire to avoid it.

aspiration: (1) A hope, desire, or ambition to achieve a specified goal. Hence an aspiration level or level of aspiration is a goal or target that a person sets for future achievement. (2) Audible breath that may accompany the articulation of a speech sound.

How else could you express these states of mind?

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Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson  (via wordsnquotes)