Hi-Faluten Shenanigans

“I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like the wrong things are always bigger. And all the advice I’ve ever read —smile more, be yourself, dream big, stay positive—seems to have some darker side that’s never mentioned.”

—Jane Devin, Elephant Girl: A Human Story (via larmoyante)

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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

—Truman Capote (via katherinebeatricemuseum)

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

—Robert Frost (via standinglikeaguiltyschoolboy)

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”

—Virginia Woolf (via myquotelibrary)

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“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”

—Ayn Rand (via myquotelibrary)

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