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Your epitaph will begin: “She redefined what it meant to be a good woman.”

It will say: “She scaled mountains, in hiking boots and in heels. She started in her own backyard and then went all the way around the world. She accepted challenges with curiosity and determination. She emerged victorious regardless of outcome, knowing both the pleasure of success and the grace of failure. She tasted long hot days and cool still nights, at home wherever she found herself. She wasn’t always popular, but she was always true. She wasn’t always comfortable, but no one can say she didn’t enjoy her life. She explored her edges, increased her capacity, and lived as big as she could dream. Moved equally by bliss and pain, she played her heart out one moment at a time. She was dialed in. She was courageous. She was turned on.”

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� Some sheer inspiration from The Turned-on Woman’s Manifesto (via fortheloveofmegan)

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THE BURIED LIFE: 20 Things I Should Have Known at 20.

theburiedlife:

1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.

2. Do not have faith in institutions to…

"You belong among the wildflowers. You belong in a boat out at sea. You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere you feel free."

� Tom Petty (via wildwendes)

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"Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget."

� Stefan Sagmeister (via kari-shma)

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"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

� F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via emotional-algebra)

"There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

� Victor Hugo (via fortheloveofmegan)

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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

� Denis Waitley (via fortheloveofmegan)

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"I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there."

� J.D. Salinger (via fortheloveofmegan)

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"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.
Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."

� Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear (via fortheloveofmegan)

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"It’s better to be overdressed than underdressed. People will assume you are going to or coming from something better."

� Glenn O’Brien (via fortheloveofmegan)

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