too glam to give a damn

i learned that the Romans believed eyelashes fell out from excessive sex, so women would use cosmetics to make their eyelashes look fuller and longer to demonstrate their chastity (x)

I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still.

Positive people also have negative thoughts. They just don’t let those thoughts control them.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

“People only bring up your past when they are intimidated by your present.”