In the Dew of Little Things

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.

Eve Ensler (via misswallflower)

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln (via thesearepeopleyouknow)

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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
― William Shakespeare

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Anna Quindlen (via loves-lovely-words)

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To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life… To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (via petalsquotesandthorns)

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