As long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.
Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
Buckminister Fuller (via amargedom)
Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay – cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate and good-heartened; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity.
Charlotte Brontë writing to a friend who had been kind to a man she thought was married, only to have him fall in love with her because he thought she was flirting (letter dated April 2, 1845). (via feu-pale)
“some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity” amazing
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“DO NOT CONDEMN YOURSELF TO LIVE ONLY BY HALVES” damn I love it.
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And yet more evidence that men have been the same for centuries.
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