my tumblr relationships
- me: omfg ily i swear we're like long lost twins or something your blog is my life
- me: also what is your name
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- haha o boy
Oh Yah this is it.
And this is how i know. now after work instead of feeling drained I’m on this high. I feel empowered like I can do anything in the world. Instead of watching the clock every 2 minutes I realize all of a sudden it’s 5:20 and my boss is saying, you should probably get outta here. i don’t go to work early because she’s going to catch me and award me brownie points but because i can’t wait to get started on everything i’ve got going on that day. but more than anything i want to keep reading because when out of all the terrible manuscripts i go through there comes one that’s so stunning that i want to tell her that we’ve to publish this right away it’s the best feeling in the world. i want to see this bound with lushly beautiful covers on the shelf not because i get anything out of it but because i believe in it. in its power its amazing-ness. i can’t get enough.
now to find a boy that makes me feel this way.
YO CHANG
(via explosive-lights)
人总要慢慢成熟，将这个浮华的世界看得更清楚，看穿伪装的真实，看清隐匿的虚假，很多原本相信的事便不再相信。但是，要相信，这个世界里美好总要多过阴暗，欢乐总要多过苦难，还有很多事，值得你一如既往的相信。——龙应台《不相信》
"I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying “write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep”, and “cheer up” and “happiness is our birthright” and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say “Quick! Move on! Cheer up!” I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word “happiness” and to replace it with the word “wholeness”. Ask yourself “is this contributing to my wholeness?” and if you’re having a bad day, it is."
— Hugh Mackay (via aeloquence)
(Source: beautemillesimee, via sophiestrand)
我家喵喵什么时候能这样热情地抱住我啊！
(via everybodysayyeh)
种下一种思想，收获一种行为；种下一种行为，收获一种习惯；种下一种习惯，收获一种个性；种下一种个性，收获一种命运。
On such a hot New York day, it seems as if something drastic has to happen. And if it doesn’t, it seems I might be willing to commit something foolish just to keep from being smothered by the sudden heat.
重又做Internship自然不是我想要的。原以为肯抛弃工作来当一年三万的Editorial Assistant已是无比伟大，理应一路顺风站在偌高的地方嘲笑那些没有梦想的人们。其实太天真太自信。我总是太天真太自信。
所庆幸的是，活了二十四年终于找到了肯为之努力的东西。之前的所有，来的太容易，让我必然不懂如何去珍惜，如何去尝试努力。这一次，也许我会一次次失败，但至少有生以来第一次，我知道失败绝不是因为我没尽全力。多么普通的一件事，对我来说却从未发生过。这是成长中必上的一课吧，只希望现在上还为时不晚。
因为执着地想要，所以卑微。爱情中如此，工作中亦然。想着三个月Internship结束后我会在做什么依然是不确定的，若是以前，我必无法承受这样的煎熬。这次不同，这次为了梦想我情愿担惊受怕。妈妈竟然出乎意料的理解我，她说人这一辈子，怎么也要为自己的理想搏上一搏，不然将来会后悔的。
接下来的三个月，一门心思的努力吧。别让这个那个有的没的干扰了来之不易的执着。感情用事都是小孩子做的事情，是我不再能消费得起的青春。机会再来的时候，我会做好充分，甚至过分的准备。
二十五岁生日前，我要做Simon&Schuster的Editorial Assistant。多么微小的职位，却是我今生最重要的愿望。生命中的不确定要有，人的计划与努力，也要有。
It’s lilac season!!
(Source: tracithorsonphotography.com, via thelittlecorner)
