"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao Tzu (via reddeadvixen)

"I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what’s funny is when you say that, people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don’t love abortion, but I want women to be able to choose, and I don’t want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean, what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?"

Ellen Page, resident badass. (via gaywrites)

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Pop-punk is for pudgy self-haters. Hardcore sucks worse than it did 10 years ago, which seemed impossible at the time. Punk is now Green Day. Indie rock is the new Ke$ha. Chillwave is for former swoop-hair kids who’ve aged out of their scene. Shoegaze is the new jazz music, meaning people only pretend to like it. Bands with earnest, gruff vocals are the new swoop-hairbands. Everything you like really truly sucks.

Do you know what all the sentences above have in common? Besides the fact that they’re true, I mean. Can’t guess? OK, here’s what links those ideas:

You shouldn’t care. You shouldn’t validate them by arguing. You should ignore them completely.

There’s only one thing worse in this whole world than a misguided nerd, and that’s an apologetic one. You like what you like. You should always be looking to expand your palate but, at the end of the day, you can’t force it.

If you’re into Saves The Day, you’re into it. There’s no need to put on airs or dress it up. And if you like ignorant mosh music, it’s just part of your DNA. You’ll probably always like it. Don’t hide your Hatebreed lyric tattoos. Maybe you still dye your hair colors not found in nature. Don’t hide your Mindless Self Indulgence tattoo. Or that ICP hatchetman logo on your ankle.

Here’s the thing. As lame as everything I listed at the beginning of this essay is, the stuff people believe to be cool is just as corny. Hardcore kids want to be indie rockers; indie rockers want to be house DJs. Someone put it in their heads that they should always be chasing cool. It’s all a crock. There is no “cool.” It just doesn’t exist. Chasing it makes you uncomfortable in your own skin and paints you as an insecure clown to the rest of the world.

I’m confident everything you like sucks. I know it. But there is not a reason in the world you should care about my opinion. There’s no reason you should value ANY person’s opinion over what your ears tell you. Never change for the guy at the record store, the geek in a popular band, or some faceless blog. Don’t bother defending your position. Just like what you like.

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Patrick Kindlon, Alternative Press  (via nodesitvirtus)

"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."

Stephen Fry (via rachelshead)

"The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy."

Pete Wentz    (via xxxxzzz)

"I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via hippiecrack)

"I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you’re not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I’m sorry that I don’t talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn’t mean I’m not smart and tough and strong."

-Jess (New Girl)

just don’t call her adorkable

(via myroaringtwenties)

“Lawrence is a fellow Kentucky native, and the two had met once before at the SAG awards earlier that year. He was there for ‘The Kids are All Right’, she for ‘Winter’s Bone’. “She came up to me and said ‘When I was in New York city and I was starting to act, I wasn’t booking a lot of stuff and my mom and I were talking about going back to Kentucky and maybe trying when I was older. But I was really determined not to give up on acting, and I saw you in the newspaper as a boy from Kentucky who was making it in Hollywood and I took it to my mom and I was like, Look, he can do this. I can do this too.’” He pauses, smiling at the memory. “So she’s nominated for an Academy Award and she’s telling me that I inspired her to keep going. It really took me back.”
jaymug: Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I´m yours forever.

"Music is a matter of taste. Bitching at someone for liking a certain style of music is like yelling at someone for liking broccoli with melted cheese (which, might I add, is awesome). I don’t understand why there are so many snobs out there who deem it necessary to force-feed their opinions to others, and claim that their experience in the matter makes their statement any more credible than the next, when, as I said before, its all a matter of taste. If you dig it, awesome. If you don’t, awesome. Its just another plate being served at the world’s biggest (in this case musical) buffet. Don’t make some kid feel guilty for listening to what he / she enjoys."

Alex Gaskarth (via ilovekaponeoh)