365, completely alive

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture of their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." -MLK

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you can literally lay in bed and eat a block of cheese like an apple and it’s not illegal

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I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

Joshua Graham (via wordsnquotes)

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And it’s amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

Eoin Colfer, Benny and Babe (via thequotejournals)

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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 thequotejournals)

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Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (via thequotejournals)

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Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?

Charles Bukowski (via thequotejournals)

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I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thequotejournals)

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I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Joanne Harris  (via wordsnquotes)

[fuck-yeah-existentialism]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness (and) you remain a victim of circumstances.

Arthur D. Saftlass (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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[evilrashida]

I was a much happier person when I kept my friends at a distance and didn’t seek out romantic relationships. Trying to develop deep emotional relationships with people will always end in disappointment if your expecting the same in return.

[evilrashida]

Update: he texted back im good now

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For Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re pleased to share this art work by Jonathan Labillois titled “Still Dancing,” which originally appeared in Volume, 9 Issue 2 of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. This issue featured a special section on Indigenous Girlhood. 

For more on Indigenous Peoples, please visit our blog. 

[kid-with-plans]

Found that and thought that you have to see that too

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Deepak Chopra (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Rumi (via thequotejournals)

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The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis (via thequotejournals)