Alex

My slice of the Tumblr universe: words, humor, and X Files. MSR junkie for life.

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I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ... There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

John Green, Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars

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Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But … the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, ‘They’ll remember me now,’ but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. … We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless—epically useless in my current state—but I am an animal like any other. … The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn’t get smallpox. … I am so lucky to love her. … You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

John Green, Augustus from The Fault in Our Stars

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So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. [It's] still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

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This is my favorite Macklemore song.

"Listen, see I was meant to be a warrior, fight something amongst me, leave here victorious. Classroom of kids, or a venue performing, if I'd done it for the money I'd have been a fucking lawyer.

Concrete, vagabond, van telling stories, humbled by the road, I'm realizing I'm not important. See life's a beautiful struggle; I record it. Hope it helps you maneuvering through yours and that's why we stay in the lab at night. I've been staring into this pad for over half my life. A true artist won't be satisfied, so I guess that's the sacrifice.

And I say, make the money; don't let the money make you. Change the game; don't let the game change you. I'll forever remain faithful; all my people stay true."

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You realize you are not alone, right? No one in their twenties has life figured out. It’s okay to be a mess. You’re living.

Things my therapist told me today that almost made me burst out into tears. I need to remember this more often. (via 6vi)

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"Great plans I have for you."

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God does not have bad years with us. He never takes us backwards. He always takes us forwards. Your best days are not behind you. They are ahead of you. It's not some hope or fancy talk; it's God's promise to you and me. ... Maybe you wonder what your future holds, and I don't know. But I do know who holds your future.

Brian Grow

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We think that when we walk with God, he takes away the valleys. But if he did that, he would be an uncaring God, because we don't grow on the mountaintops.

Brian Grow

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Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. ... The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Moses, Exodus 14:13-14

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Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Stephen King, The Body

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The messages you received from your family or your childhood experiences may have caused you to believe that assertiveness is unacceptable or even dangerous. Practice saying the following: I have the right to be treated with respect by others. I have the right to express my feelings and opinions. I have the right to say no without feeling guilty. I have the right to ask for what I want. I have the right to make my own mistakes. I have the right to pursue happiness.

Nice Girl Syndrome, Beverly Engel

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I really do have to start going to the gym when school starts back. It's getting bad. The stress just turns me even more into a human vacuum.

My love handles and belly pouch have developed to where I hate wearing any semblance of a fitted outfit or shirt. I've gained 15 pounds in four years, which isn't so bad when you think of how many gain that or more in just the first year of college, but still. Also, I am still on the lower side of average weight for my height, but I can't help but feel gross constantly because of that belly fat. I feel kind of like a walking mess, between that and my constant bed-head hairstyles, acne, and crazy fatigue eyes. Can I just go straight to the part of my life where that extra 10-15 pounds is gone and I have rocking abs?