“Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

Benjamin Mee - We Bought A Zoo

I did it! I spoke in class several times today, and I watched ideas bounce like ping pong balls, off of and around my classmates’ heads.

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“Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.”

Fran Chan (via barefeetambition)

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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

Ernest Hemingway  (via setbabiesonfire)

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“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.”

Silvia Plath (via barefeetambition)