We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.
— Paulo Coelho (via thresca)
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
— Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
— Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
As Harold took a bite of Bavarian Sugar Cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy…there are Bavarian Sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin…Or a kind and loving gesture…Or a subtle encouragement…Or a loving embrace…Or offer of comfort…Not to mention hospital gurneys…And nose plugs…And uneaten Danish…And soft-spoken secrets…And Fender Stratocasters…And maybe, the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances the anomalies, the subtleties which we assume only accessorize out days, are in fave here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.
— Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction
…there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

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Wake Up Everybody- John Legend & The Roots feat. Common & Melanie Fiona

That’s how sex is presented to boys - it’s not intimacy; it’s not the loving, egalitarian [part] that we get something out of, it’s something we do to the other. We raise women to survive in a rape culture, because we raise women to know these things. We do nothing to talk to men about not raping. But we do talk to women about how to protect themselves, which is further why we place the blame on women when something happens. ‘Well didn’t you know not to do that? Didn’t you know not to wear that dress? Or didn’t you know not to walk down that street at that hour of the night?’
— feminist Don McPherson, on rape culture and educating boys to not rape (via agoosedrankwine)

teach me how to study

 thedailywhat: [benwarheit.] sometimes i wish the tree had said that.

thedailywhat:

[benwarheit.]

sometimes i wish the tree had said that.

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my own world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think?
— Mari (Haruki Murakami’s After Dark) (via wordsinthesky) (via yeahharukimurakami)