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Here's a little secret:

You don't have to carry the burden of understanding everything that happens to you and translating every single one of your feelings into words.

Let go of your inner monologue, if only for a moment, and you'll see that the mystery of being is already enough to make you whole.

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At the end of the day if the worst thing someone can say about you is that you love too much, then you are doing nothing wrong.

Unknown (via quotemadness)

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“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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“Because no matter how tough the world becomes, you must never run out of sweetness.”

— Bernardo Kath

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“It is okay if you don’t complete things and goals as fast as other people do; we are all different people with different levels of skills and it’s okay to go at your own pace.”

— Unknown

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Kristen Meyer

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pulling stunts that strengthen the public’s perception of gay people as satanic perverts is a shitty thing to do. the end

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“I wanted to go to the NBA like everyone else. I played sun-up to sun-down. But I’m 4’11,” huskier than a muthafucka. It wasn’t happening, sir. So I opened up a sneaker store with the kid who caught Barry Bond’s 756th homerun. But then my Aunt Lucy passed and I was over at her crib, cleaning out her closet. I’m reaching up for the top shelf and mad shit fell on me, one of them is a cookbook. Two recipes popped out: ratatouille and vanilla ice cream. Now I don’t know what the fuck is ratatouille, so I says let me see what this ice cream be about. I had no machine, no nothing. I put the ingredients into a bowl and popped it in the freezer. It was trash. So I was like we gotta change this. I went to Bed Bath and Beyond and got a tabletop ice cream machine, and then it was like: ‘Oh, I see what this is.’ People started coming over to my crib. They’re saying: ‘Mikey, this ice cream is damn good.’ Then somebody told my mom that I was an ice cream man now, and I wasn’t gonna sell weed no more. She got so excited I was like: ‘Shit, now I gotta open up a shop.’ I’m gonna be honest, I thought it was put the scoop in a cup. But it’s a whole bunch of other shit too. I got no line of credit, no nothing. I just use whatever cash is coming into the register. Every time I run out the bill collectors come and throw stones at me. If Ben and Jerry’s grew up in the hood, that’s what we’re dealing with here. But we’ve been open for eight years. Black Enterprise Magazine called this place a ‘safe haven.’ You know how every gangsta’s got a grandma saying: ‘Sit down baby, have some food.’ That’s what this about. It’s bigger than ice cream. I grew up two blocks from here, so on Thanksgiving I’m blasting out hot food in the projects: turkeys, sandwiches, mashed potatoes. We put on for the community. That’s what we do. Cause if you ain’t doing it for the community, that means you’re taking. We like family here. My employees are like my kids. That’s why I stay blessed. I’m gonna put one of my shops in every neighborhood. Imagine how many kids I’m gonna take off the streets. I’ll take em’ from pants saggin’ to ‘Welcome to Mikey Likes It.’”

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There's nothing like a mad woman. @taylornation @taylorswift https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-VZndsnHS/?igshid=804mua1l5c17

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Happy fall, y'all. (at Lake Orion, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF8lfLBM-Y2/?igshid=1b0a8la4x4yz4

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My mirror is insanely dirty (apparently) but I was feeling kinda witchy here. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFxTraoM57G/?igshid=1sfn8e7j74mp8

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Felt inspired by the way I did my sister's makeup for her baby shower yesterday, so I did my makeup in a fun way, and I felt so pretty, even in a baggy cardigan. It was glorious. Enjoy my face. (at Lake Orion, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXtF3xMJTN/?igshid=18pr8mk6c6r9h

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But for real, I've had the same stylist forever because she is the literal bomb dot com. She gets me. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFG7hD7sumV/?igshid=oks38f0ruzjs