Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart.

One of the great errors of an elite education, then, is that it teaches you to think that measures of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense. But they’re not. Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people. Their pain does not hurt more. Their souls do not weigh more.

—“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

If you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

—Conan O’Brien

The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

—Midnight in Paris

It was strange, that excitement over this first-year student,” then-32-year-old Michelle recalls when describing the buzz about a new summer associate at the law firm Sidley and Austin. “So smart, so good-looking, so intelligent, everyone was talking about Barack. I’m more of the skeptical kind, I was thinking, ‘Yeah, he’s probably an idiot, whatever.’

—Michelle Obama on her husband, Barack. (x)

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In others’ eyes, I am part of the world. But when I look out at the world from my own vantage point, I am not in it. What I see is the world. As an observer, I am the point of view that creates the world. I can’t belong to the world

—Ergo Proxy (via lyrexz)

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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

—Elizabeth Taylor (via girlinlondon)

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He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

—Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (via serialstranger)

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We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.

—Don Draper, “Mad Men” (via caseylyly)