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A system that values obedience over curiosity isn’t education and it definitely isn’t science.
Florida Teen Tried With Felony For Trying Science
A beautiful rant about misguided public science education and how the fear of punishment kills curiosity, especially for minorities because they tend to receive harsher punishments, and for the poor because punishments end up being harsher on them when something like bail ends up putting their families even farther in debt.
(Source: kindofamenace)
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Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.
(Source: the-healing-nest)
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Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall
(Source: hellanne)
(Source: sleeplessrambles)
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The reason you haven’t felt [love] is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons. You’re born alone, and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund Freud
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
(Source: larmoyante)
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Source: rawrmarks)
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Committing is hard because we’re all scared of what happens when we find out we committed to the wrong thing.
Typewriter Series #406 by Tyler Knott Gregson
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
- Lucille Ball
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It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.
Susane Colasanti
(Source: hellanne)
