When You Get This, Please Respond With Five Things That Make You Happy! Then Send It To The Last Ten

“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Proud of me.

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Give yourself credit for the ways you’ve grown this year.

Nicole Addison

it's okay if you get confused easily. it's okay if you forget things easily. it's okay if you lose track during conversation easily. it's okay if you have to ask for clarification often. it's okay if you struggle to parse information or sensory unit. you're not "playing dumb" or "doing it on purpose". it's okay to be disabled, some people just refuse to be accommodating.

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life.”

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

You don’t need to be at your best for your life to have value and to be appreciated and seen.

Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.