You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be.
Little Bits of Lovely: the inspiration files {chase your dreams}
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.
Frederick Perls (via juliaallison)
But if you consider this in human terms, and you imagine a person defined by a desperation to be liked, what do you see? You see a person without integrity, without a center. In more pathological cases, you see a narcissist — a person who can’t tolerate the tarnishing of his or her self-image that not being liked represents, and who therefore either withdraws from human contact or goes to extreme, integrity-sacrificing lengths to be likable. If you dedicate your existence to being likable, however, and if you adopt whatever cool persona is necessary to make it happen, it suggests that you’ve despaired of being loved for who you really are. And if you succeed in manipulating other people into liking you, it will be hard not to feel, at some level, contempt for those people, because they’ve fallen for your shtick.
Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. - NYTimes.com
I don’t like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
John Waters on rules. (via coketalk)(via coketalk)
If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)(Source: justbesplendid)
Given their ratio of security cameras to shitty merchandise, I think Claire’s Accessories® is just a STING operation
(Source: trevsoelectric)
Some day you and all this depressing shit will be just a footnote in the massive biography of how rich and fucked up I became
(Source: trevsoelectric)
To hunt for an apartment is to decide which New York you belong in, and what specific droplet of the city’s fickle soul has found its way into your veins.
The New York Apartment - What Piled-Up Housing Reveals About Us — New York Magazine
To choose an apartment here is to select one particular vision of what New York life can be
The New York Apartment - What Piled-Up Housing Reveals About Us — New York Magazine
It is just crisis after crisis, stuffed one into the next. It is a disaster-durducken.
Stephen Colbert (via strikerdark)(via bbook)
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, over thinking it. You have to go down the shoot.
Tina Fey is this week’s New Yorker
