“Why, Darling, I Don’t Live At All When I’m Not With You.”

“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” - Norman Vincent Peale

O lawrd!!!

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors (via quotespile)

Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.

Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

WOMEN’S HISTORY ✾† TOYPURINA (1760 – 1799)

Toypurina was a medicine woman and spiritual leader of the Tongva people who lead an unsuccessful rebellion against Spanish colonialists in what is now the Los Angeles basin of California. She was approximately nine-years-old when the first Spaniards invaded and twenty-one when the Pueblo of Los Angeles was founded. In 1785, she and the newly converted Nicolas José led an attack against the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel with the intent to kill all the Spaniards present.

The attack ultimately failed, however, when a soldier tipped off the missionaries ahead of time and Toypurina and the others were arrested. After her trial, Toypurina was banished to Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (now Carmel, California) and converted to Christianity, taking the name Regina Josepha. She married a Spaniard named Mañuel Montero and had three children with him. She died in 1799 at the age of thirty-nine.  

Stay strong, make them wonder how you’re still smiling.

(via love-diaries)

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via quotespile)

So perfect thick