“When I was eight, the impostor, or false self, was born as a defense against pain. The impostor within whispered, ‘Brennan, don’t ever be your real self anymore because nobody likes you as you are. Invent a new self that everybody will admire and nobody will know.’ So I became a good boy—polite, well-mannered, unobtrusive, and deferential. I studied hard, scored excellent grades, won a scholarship in high school, and was stalked every waking moment by the terror of abandonment and the sense that nobody was there for me.”
Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
— Camile Pissarro
(Source: liquidlightandrunningtrees, via kaitrenna)
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
— Robert Brault
(Source: creatingaquietmind, via letsmeetinourdreams)
“When I was almost eight years old, my mother courageously brought my brother and me from Japan to Hawaii to flee my father, a compulsive gambler and alcoholic. Every immigrant has his or her own reason for coming to the United States — but all of us, like my mother, my brother, and me, come here hoping for a better life… While immigration reform is clearly an economic issue, it is first and foremost about people. People like me. I want to make sure other families like mine have the same opportunity to come to America, work hard, play by the rules, and find a better life.”
— Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
(Source: The Huffington Post, via theruleofyellow)
“I am more interested in your fruit than I am your theology. If your knowledge doesn’t better equip you to love, it’s worthless.”
— Mattie Montgomery
(Source: breanna-lynn, via letsmeetinourdreams)
“None of us can take back what we’ve done in the past, the most meaningful apology is how you live the rest of your life.”
— Kathryn Schulz
(Source: dreamersmind, via letsmeetinourdreams)
“If guys were as mad about rape as they are duck face we wouldn’t have a rape culture problem.”
—
Jamie Kilstein
Other things most straight white guys get way more upset about than they do about rape:
- Taylor Swift
- the song “Call Me Maybe”
- girls who date “douchebags”
- basically any music that isn’t played by white dudes with guitars
- girls who are “shallow” or “fake”
- girls who wear too much make-up
- girls who don’t wear enough make-up
- fat girls
- when people badmouth dark and gritty superhero films
- sports
- sports
- sports
- guns
- fishing
- hunting
- vegetarianism
- Justin Bieber
- someone thinking that they’re gay
- musicals
(via blossom-bamford)
(Source: avant-sad, via theveganarchist)
