Shane Koyczan: To this day

And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself
get a better mirror
look a little closer
stare a little longer
because there’s something inside you
that made you keep trying
despite everyone who told you to quit
you built a cast around your broken heart
and signed it yourself
you signed it
“they were wrong.”

Postales literarias

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Cuando me encontré con este set de 100 postales, cada una de ellas evocando la portada de un libro publicado por la famosa editorial Penguin, no me pude resistir. Ahora Virginia Woolf, Emily Brontë, Oscar Wilde y Scott Fitzgerald cuelgan de la pared de mi habitación (si queréis hacer lo mismo que yo solo necesitáis un poco de cuerda, fiso (o washi tape, que queda más mona), y unas mini pinzas de colores.

Mi lata molona para guardar los materiales.

Simone de Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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"No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for this abandonment by everyone. Formerly, I had been quite satisfied with myself, but I had taken very little trouble to increase my self-knowledge; from now on, I would stand outside myself, watch over and observe myself; in my diary I had long conversations with myself. I was entering a world whose newness stunned me. I learned to distinguish between distress and melancholy, lack of emotion and serenity; I learned to recognize the hesitations of the heart, and its ecstasies, the splendor of great renunciations, and the subterranean murmurings of hope. I entered into exalted trances, as on those evenings when I used to gaze upon the sky full of moving clouds behind the distant blue of the hills; I was both the landscape and its beholder: I existed only through myself, and for myself… My path was clearly marked: I had to perfect, enrich and express myself in a work of art that would help others to live."

-Simone de Beauvoir.

¿Qué es lo que realmente quieres?

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"Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing. Which is STUPID! Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

And after all, if you do really like what you're doing, it doesn’t matter what it is, you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way to become a master of something, to be really with it. And then you’ll be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much. Somebody’s interested in everything. And anything you can be interested in, you’ll find others who are."

"Giving up at the point that’s well before most people start seems a bit pointless to me."

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Esta es la respuesta que Neil Gaiman le dio en su Tumblr a una chica que le preguntaba si, con 23 años, quizás debería renunciar a su sueño de ser escritora. Yo necesitaba leer algo así, así que aquí os lo dejo, por si no soy la única:

"I published my first stories when I was 23. They weren’t very good. I published my first solo novel when I was 36. I’m glad I didn’t give up when I was 23.

There are very few successful writers of fiction who are younger than 23. You need a certain amount of life experience and a lot more writing experience. Giving up at the point that’s well before most people start seems a bit pointless to me."