As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn  (via musingsinfemininity)

(Source: sorakeem)







In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” -Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice. Ah, how beautiful.

please excuse me as i talk like the luckiest girl in the world for a hot sec.

It began with: “Can you read this text? I’m winning this fight, right?” The Titanic, jumping over you in the hallway, WILD, “We’re just going to be best friends, okay?” suitemates, you joining me on skype seshs with friends, bringing you your laptop cord in bd, WASHUWASH, trying to make you graphics, cutting out your infamous ghost sheet, advice on advice on advice, doing your drag makeup and yelling at you later that night for being needy, you getting mad that I replaced you with Jake, crying on your shoulder after a bad day/night, elevator chats, Reading week studying and the couch pictures, boxer trading, Ibby’s, Highlighter Kappa Sig, Betarade, you stealing my bed from me, so I had to sleep in my chair, THE RUNNING RANT, making your bed

It proceeded with: Hitting your head on Max’s ceiling, DG Formal, pretending we were a couple when we were just friends, Roof of Graham Chapel, taking a part of that roof,  stealing a construction worker’s hat from Umrath Hall, going to the top of Umrath, being friends with Hot Dam PFam, you DJ-ing Beta things, second floor of the DUC (and eventually visiting you on the third), you letting me into a DUC conference room to study math, going to see you perform with RnR

It ended with: Beta Formal, Kelly & I making you the happiest DJ ever, “Is this a good idea…?” Gummy bears (both plain and over-doused variety, walking in the first night,drop everything now, kiss me in the pouring rain,finding the piano room/kitchen/laundry rooms, debating until 2am in the morning, 2:00 on April 4th.

It continues with: Holding hands so that fingers are adequately warm and arms are comfortable, friend flinch, good morning/good night texts, never seeing you because of your secretive pledge stuff but leaving me the note, “Wait, are you ticklish?” meeting the parents, stealing your clothes, random cute moments when we’re walking, you visiting me in studio, Vivienne, Spring Wild…, seeing you at your regatta

“Mmmm.”



Thoughts and Prayers

A friend of mine, who was also my twin’s closest friend, passed away early this morning due to Menengitis.

Thoughts and prayers for her family and loved ones, please?

<3 so incredibly sad.



Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we’re told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe… it’s you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is… just… moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.
(He’s Just Not That Into You)

(Source: wordsthat-speak)


samsketch:

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”  ― Maurice Sendak
drawnblog:

RIP Maurice Sendak




Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.
Jason Mraz (via creatingaquietmind)