creativintage.

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, “Ohhhh.” And the lightbulb goes on.

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Henry Rollins 

(so very true) 

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You can’t navigate me. I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you ‘cause you know I’m the only real thing you got.

—Troy Dyer, Reality Bites

someday. someone good enough will finally get to appreciate you fully and everything that makes you so damn awesome… like peace pictures taken in the airport. your beauty will be secondary to that brilliant, creative, extraordinary mind that ever so complements a body worth a thousand words to honor a lifetime, clear to the end.

—words to remember from a dear friend (to speak honestly)

(Source: awelltraveledwoman)

Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing them that there’s a different way and many perceptions of beauty. You may not be feeling it inside, but if you display it like you mean it, then it can give permission to be kind to ourselves and embrace our individuality.

—Erin O’Connor (via wendesgray)

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Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

—Johanna de Silentio  (via wendesgray)

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Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees, I will lay on the moss, and breath in the scent of mushrooms, flowers and wet soil.

—L’ Échappée, Les Discrets (via awelltraveledwoman)

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Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful for the little things in life.

—(via jenini)

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