April 2012
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Today is too beautiful.
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Took my only final - religion, because it’s required. But I’m exempt from all the others so my summer has basically started!
Need to take some self-portraits for school.. time to put the uniform back on.
I’m going to run some errands then go to track, then probably run some more errands
Also: maybe try out the cute new cafe I found, read,...
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and...
– Vincent van Gogh (via immortels)
Interviewer: Give us your best tip for overcoming depression.
Stephen Fry: To regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.
Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland,
I notice the ring that’s landed on...
– “The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy,” Jeffrey McDaniel (via clavicola)
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Do You Have To Be Miserable To Be An Artist? →
paradoxicalsentiments:
by Ryan Frawley
“Any great passion implies imbalance, and happiness, in the sense of a lasting contentment, requires a certain equilibrium. It’s not just art; if you obsessively devote yourself to a certain person, or to creating the perfect pancake, or to making a suit of armour that will withstand a charging grizzly bear, you have strayed from the range of normal human...
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The...
– Robin Williams (via manicpixiedreambitch)
musiclovesbookworms:
everything is illuminated: ehlcatt: it was summer, so you let your hair grow long and learned to shout secrets at the stars…
ehlcatt:
it was summer, so you let your hair grow long and learned to shout secrets at the stars spending nights cross-legged in the living room with sweat-soaked t-shirts in a size too big until you caught yourself in the mirror, feeling a...
Today was my last day of high school.
Ever.
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As teens, INFPs may have a bit of a rebellious streak. They may argue with those...
– 9types.com (via i-am-infp)
I JUST FINISHED MY LAST HIGH SCHOOL PAPER EVER!!!!!
I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to make up fake book sources to cite, but whatever.
chrysalism
twelfthsubwaycar:
n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who...
– Mark Twain
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Also, it’s honestly so nice to be comfortably aware that you have the genuine support and respect of the people around you, both peers and teachers.
At the National Honor Society induction ceremony tonight (which is usually extremely long and boring, but since my favorite teacher took charge and shortened it/we had a great speaker I ended up really enjoying it), my principal half-whispered...
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It’s just really nice when, after people ask where you’re going to college and you tell them, they reply with “Oh my god that’s perfect for you.”
Just reinforces the positive vibes behind what is in reality a pretty fucking scary decision.
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13 Simple Steps To Get You Through A Rough Day →
My day was actually pretty good, but this is a damn great thing anyway.
She had somehow given over the thinking to him, and in his absences her every...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via coello)
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Only 4 days left of high school.
Why bother starting to try to get things done at a reasonable hour now? Procrastination has brought me this far!
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Sitting in bed with the lights dimmed, drinking chai tea and listening to Angus & Julia Stone while writing a Spanish reflection paper. I’m okay with this
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The 24 Types of INFP
i-am-infp:
talking-fiction:
INFPs take this test, noting which percentages of the letters are the highest. The highest letters come first, the lowest, last. Let’s say Mary scores 100%I 60%N 55%F 75%P. She would be an IPNF, or a “commonlaw”.
I-type- ”The Nesters”
INFP-“The Martyr”- This type tends to sacrifice themselves in an effort to promote their peculiar sense of truth....
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it’s nearing 1:30 am and I’m not tired / I just finished editing my video project for spanish and it makes me laugh a whole lot / I worked a 3 hour shift tonight / I thought it would be easy but it was actually physically exhausting to not know how to be around you / once we fell back into our old, sarcastic ways everything was easy and the weight was lifted / you poked me in the side...
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In all my life till now, rain has meant staying inside and not being able to go...
– Antwone Quenton Fisher, Finding Fish: A Memoir (via paradoxicalsentiments)