Avoidance

"The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies." 

Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (via touchoftea)

(Pastor Moss is awesome, y’all.)

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"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it" 

W. Somerset Maugham  (via ignitelight)

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"Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it." 

Amy Poehler (via ceedling)

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Yinka Shonibare MBE (b. United Kingdom, 1962). How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies), 2006.

The lovers make a suicide pact, and are found the next morning, washed up on the beach with their arms around each other. So everybody dies. - Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time." 

John Lubbock (via thegreatgracie)

"They understood each other so well that they shifted in tandem, from anger to amusement in seconds. In an attempt to convince Zelda that she was “just an old schizophrenic”, Scott told an episode that had occurred when they were out riding. When Zelda denied the incident, Fitzgerald shrugged it off by saying, “Maybe it was an schizophrenic horse”, at which Zelda broke into laughter, declaring, “Oh, Scott, that’s really good, that’s priceless" 

Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom. Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage by Kendall Taylor (via pommegranate)

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"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone." 

Hunter S. Thompson

"Nobody lives, nobody dies. Nothingness lives, nothingness dies. You are not. Have a good laugh at this situation. You are not and you exist. You are not and you are. This is the cosmic joke." 

Osho (via oceanofmind)

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." 

Katharine Hepburn (via mrgolightly)

"Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation." 

The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket (via aeraspais)

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