Woke up to be greater.

8 May

Most things about me are hard to explain, I guess, like how I’m mostly delusional and live in a half-imaginary world, but am also a realist to the core. I’m just a bunch of contradictions most of the time and I don’t like it, but I also do.

— Marianna Paige (via give-your-lyfe-meaning)

(Source: hellanne, via give-your-lyfe-meaning)

8 May

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8 May

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.

— (via an-artful-life)

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18 Apr

grab-the-reins:

yakaface:

chicklikemeblog:

miaballistic:

aparticleofdark:

exhi-lara-tion:

“I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.”

Thank you, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

This is so so so very important.

Love this.

YES. Exactly. I’ve also seen so many people rag on this movie and how it portrays Summer. But all the complaints I see about her are usually actually making the arguments that the movie is making.

I’m watching this movie tonight because..

Never seen the movie, but that first comment is awesome.

15 Apr

psychology2010:

Sternberg’s Love Theory

The triangular theory of love is a theory of love developed by psychologist Robert Sternberg. In the context of interpersonal relationships, ‘the three components of love, according to the triangular theory, are an intimacy component, a passion component, and a decision/commitment component’.

Intimacy – Which encompasses feelings of attachment, closeness, connectedness, and bondedness.
Passion – Which encompasses drives connected to both limerence and sexual attraction.
Commitment – Which encompasses, in the short term, the decision to remain with another, and in the long term, the shared achievements and plans made with that other.

(Source: psychology2010, via give-your-lyfe-meaning)

13 Apr

to waste so much time on a freakin person is insane. and i’m miserable.

13 Apr

It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.

Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.

— David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via nothing-but-thee-truth)

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13 Apr

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.

— Edward Gorey (via nothing-but-thee-truth)

(Source: hellanne, via give-your-lyfe-meaning)

I am a slave to my sexual desires. I can’t sleep nor focus because of it. I loathe myself because there was a time when I wasn’t distracted from anything so superficial. I want to return to a time when it was just me. Please.