Cosmic Heartbeat

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

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14 May 2013

… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women (or gay men). We teach boys that girls and women are “less than” and that leads to violence by some and silence by many. It’s important for men to stand up to not only stop men’s violence against women but, to teach young men a broader definition of masculinity that includes being empathetic, loving and non-violent.

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Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via shmegeh)

PREACHHH

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2 May 2013

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

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James Baldwin (via eatcakey)

reasons why james baldwin is my favorite writer and one of my favorite humans.

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19 Apr 2013

world-shaker:

[leaves this here and backs away]

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15 Apr 2013

nightbike:

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’”
Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007)

(Excuse me as I casually sob over the death of my favourite author)

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12 Apr 2013

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

— Voltaire (via raspberrying)

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11 Apr 2013

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via perfect)

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7 Apr 2013

Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.

— Tom Waits (via paperlover)

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20 Mar 2013

Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

— Paulo Coelho (via wah-mos)

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4 Mar 2013

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

— Nicole Krauss, Great House (via 36974)

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1 Mar 2013