n1gglets:

had to reblog. so true.

We are ALL subconsciously being brainwashed.

I think the reason people hold on to memories so tight is because they are the only thing that doesn’t change when everything else does.

Tumblr is definently not what it used to be…

urbans0uls:

pretty much

…people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.
Elizabeth Gilbert (via thehbox)

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
Bhagavad Gita (via cjspoolstra)

Infatuation - Eat, Pray, Love

flightofahoneybee:

“I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore— despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have ‘that thing’ even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you’re someone he’s never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You’re a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that’s it. You have now reached infatuation’s final destination— the complete and merciless devaluation of self.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert

You’re pride is what deprives you… I cannot stress this enough. Your excessive pride will deprive you of opportunities, friendships, love. You have to come to a point where you’re able to admit when you’re wrong and at fault. Swallow it. Be the bigger person. Pride. Too much of it will destroy you. Just a reminder.

• me: hey i havent taken a picture in a while
• me: *takes picture*
• me: *remembers why i dont take pictures*

what they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. they knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. they tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. they cut off your education and fed you brain candy. they took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. they cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. we as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. give ‘em hell, kids.

I just realized that…

thebasedblaxican:

I foreal be sitting here at home on my computer or watching TV every night while everyone I know is out going to parties and ish, like it foreal just hit me. What the hell, how come ya’ll ain’t invite me? Make me legit wonder if I still have friends lol.

All fear does is keep you from the highest version of yourself. You’re afraid of how great you could be, not if you’re not great. The truth is courage, but you need the fear to introduce you to the courage, just like you need the lie to recognize the truth. It’s all spiritual. It’s all about becoming the version of yourself that God created.

You have to start listening to that intuition, that positive voice that’s within us all. It’s real! You don’t trust it because the other part sounds more believable. We’ve been taught that realistic is negative. It’s too good to be true. No; it’s too good not to be true! You change your thinking, you change your life. You got to prove to yourself that you are already are what you want to be.

Brandy (via thisisnecole)