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1. Independence
2. Self-confidence
3. Persistence
4. Creative thinking
5. Being thick skinned
6. Knowing who you are and what you want from life
7. Setting clear goals – and going after them
8. Staying focused
9. Optimism
10. Passion and a zest for life.
Just saying! π πΎπ πΎπ πΎ
amen
These are the kinds of Christians I wish I had more around me growing up.
Never feel guilty for reading fan fic at 3am. Everything is fanfic in the end. From fanfic you were made, to fanfic you shall return.
Read that which has been panned by literary snobs. Read novels churned out by the dozen by authors with a dozen pseudonyms.
Read your US and People. Flip through Popular Science just for the gadgets section. Read articles about the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Read books outside your comfort zone. Don’t finish them if you don’t want. It’s the book’s fault, not yours.
Read in your comfort zone. Read a YA and romance and science if and fantasy.
Skip over the boring bits. Read it because you heard about it from Oprah or because everyone else is reading it.
Giggle yourself silly at something so poorly written and full of author wish fulfillment that you just can’t stop reading it.
Don’t listen to the keepers of taste and culture. Their reward comes every time they pat themselves on the back for their superior taste.
Don’t listen to the academics that bemoan the downfall of society and learning. They have been doing that since Socrates’ time.
Don’t listen to the tv presenters who insist you are not cultured if you haven’t read from this list of books.
Audio books count as reading. Ebooks count as reading. Fanfic of questionable quality counts as reading. Rereading books for the third time counts as reading. Reading to your child counts as reading. Reading from the back of the cereal box (and doing the puzzle) counts as reading.
TL;DR: read what you want. Don’t be ashamed. Never let someone try to make you feel bad for how or what you read and enjoy. Tell them that I, your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian have absolved you from your guilt and have given you special blessings. Go forth and read, my child.
Thank you lord this has been long overdue ππΎππΎ #news #Africa #nigeria #nigerianews #africannews #worldnews
President Obama’s “before and after” reaction to the Supreme Court ruling.
President Obama is a Hypocrite In 2008, he said: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.“
On Wednesday, by contrast, he said: "I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
This just in: people aren’t allowed to change their minds about same-sex marriage.
I don’t know why people keep bringing stuff up like this like they’re so damn smart. Someone did the same thing for Hillary.
Rational(key word) human beings change their minds when presented with new information that speaks to them. I went to church a few times a week all throughout high school. In 2008, I was a sophomore. If you would have asked me what I thought about gay marriage back then, I would have said pretty much the same thing. “Marriage is between a man and a woman, that’s the way it’s always been and that’s the way it is in the Bible” blah blah you’ve heard the story a million times.
But then I started going to college, moved away from the heavy conservative influence, and met really cool people that just happened to be gay. They had been dating the same person for four or five years. Certainly longer than I’ve ever dated anyone. They seemed happy. They were affectionate, they talked to each other respectfully, and you could just tell they were really in sync with each other.
And eventually I realized that, wait hold up, healthy relationships between gay people function the same way as healthy relationships between straight people. So then why the hell shouldn’t they be able to get married to the person they love? It suddenly seemed incredibly unfair. And that’s when I made up my mind that marriage should be between two consenting adults who love each other, regardless of what sex they are. You should be able to marry the person you love if you are both adults. End of discussion.
Am I a hypocrite for saying something completely different now than seven years ago? No. I changed my mind. It’s a thing that people do.
Guys, look. They finally made a baby stroller for wheelchair-bound mothers. This is so important.
My wife is a physical therapist. She started tearing up when I showed this to her.
I love seeing ableist norms broken.
Intl. Gentleman’s Day 22.02.2015
Coming up, this sunday!
Gentleman’s Essentials
at what point in a friendship can u go from “hey whats up” to “do you think aliens know what capitalism is” as a conversation starter
Not when you are laying around the house, not when you go to the grocery store, not when you sit in a classroom, not when you go to the gym. You are never obligated to get dressed up just so you are pretty for others.
Pretty is not the rent you pay to exist in the world as a woman.
That last line. Wow.
tumblr kinda forces u to get educated on things bc otherwise u wont be able to participate in or understand dash topics
DO NOT REBLOG VINES WITH THIS MAN IN THEM!
THIS IS CURTIS LEPORE. HE IS AN ACCUSED (AND ADMITTED) RAPIST WHO RECEIVED NO JAIL TIME DUE TO A PLEA BARGAIN AND FREQUENTLY ANTAGONIZES HIS VICTIM EVEN AFTER THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM HAVE BEEN DROPPED.
CURTIS LEPORE RAPED HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND (AND FELLOW VINER) JESSI SMILES IN AUGUST OF 2014 WHILE SHE WAS SLEEPING AND RECOVERING FROM A CONCUSSION SHE SUSTAINED WHILE FILMING A VINE.
JESSI HAS RECEIVED DEATH THREATS AND HATE MAIL EVER SINCE SHE PRESSED CHARGES AND HAS TO DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT THE WORLD SEEMINGLY DOES NOT CONSIDER HER RAPIST TO BE A CRIMINAL EVERY SINGLE DAY.
DO NOT REBLOG HIS VINES. DO NOT REBLOG VINES FEATURING HIM. DO NOT GIVE HIM EXPOSURE. DO NOT GIVE HIM ANYTHING.
Also, the vines with the Boston terrier “Buster beans” are also Lepore’s just as an fyi
And fucking stop supporting the people in those vines as well.
Yaaassssss!!! Finally someone spreads the fucking word!! ππΎππΎππΎ