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to those who feel lonely

This is to the people who feel lonely, the people who feel left out. The people who see others in close friendships or relationships and wish they had the same. You are valid, you are amazing, and you deserve to love yourself and take care of yourself.

thepowerwithin

Sometimes we become so bound to a routine life that we fail to see the infinite freedom that awaits us behind it. So, take moments to exit this cycle. Feel the wind in your hair. The grass beneath your feet. There is much fresher air to be breathed when life becomes unbound from these shackles of routine.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

thepowerwithin

I won’t let myself fall back into a part of my life that I worked so hard to get out of.

Nicole Addison

rawhoneybliss

Spring is a time of renewal, fresh cycles and new beginnings. Your spirit is being reawakened after a period of deep stillness and self-reflection. You are being reborn. You are entering a period of newness after having to face your own darkness. You are being regenerated. You are rising from within your shadow with a new sense of being. You are blooming beloved.

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102/365 Reasons to Pray, Elisabeth Elliot

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bengurli

u know what my goal is to eat pastries in different countries

godlessondheimite

fluffmugger

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

pennie-dreadful

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

doctorbluesmanreturns

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

mikkeneko

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

three--rings

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.