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The older I get, the more I try to be intentional. My twenties were a wasteland for me, and nothing I did had very much intention behind it. There were plenty of reasons for this, most of them perfectly reasonable, but when I turned thirty, I started to change and hopefully become a better person and one of the ways I’ve tried to become better is through intent. Whether I am living my life, teaching, reading, editing, or writing, I do it from a place of giving a damn.
Posted on August 25, 2012 via stanza my stone with 46 notes
Source: herkind.org
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Posted on September 28, 2011 via Memoirs. with 531 notes
Source: foxgloves
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Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go.Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said “Walk” the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if your friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
Ann Brashares (via outcamethesun)(via outcamethesun)
Posted on September 26, 2011 via quote library. with 64 notes
Source: myquotelibrary
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Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act.
Paulo Coelho (via paperlover)(via girlinthemoon)
Posted on September 26, 2011 via Melizza Aratan with 3,913 notes
Source: melizzaaratan
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Posted on September 26, 2011 via Gypsy Moon Goddess with 642 notes
Source: gypsymoongoddess
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The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column
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But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via outcamethesun)(via outcamethesun)
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Believe
Gotta love this manifesto
We believe that your home should make you happy.We believe in carbohydrates and to hell with the puffy consequences.
We believe minimalism is a bummer.
We believe handcrafted tchotchkes are life-enhancing.We believe in being underdressed or overdressed always.
We believe in infantile, happy emblems like butterflies and hearts.We believe in rustic modernism: Big Sur, A-Frame beach houses,
raw beams, and geodesic dome homes.We believe you should throw out your Blackberry
and go pick some actual blackberries.
We believe colors can’t clashWe believe in irreverent luxury.
Love it. I picked my favorites. read the whole thing at Jonathan Adler
gathering inspiration
