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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

— William Faulkner

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“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.”

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Rudy Francisco (via themotivationjournals)

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☆ Happy lunar dog year! here are some mythological best friends to kick it off in cuteness! ☆

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There’s an old joke: How do you make a statue of an elephant? Take a block of granite and carve away anything that doesn’t look like an elephant.” But in the same way- How do you have a better life? Start carving away anything that doesn’t look like what you envisioned.

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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Oscar Wilde

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“I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.”

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[…] and your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

William Faulkner, from Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage, 1936)

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One Haunting Video Shows “Beauty Through The Decades” In New Light

Karolina Żebrowska’s “Beauty Through The Ages” video shows not only on the glamorized versions of women but also the real, middle and lower class women as they lived in the past century.

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