#ore

She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last spring. Now they would look at her and think she was fat--just as fat as all the other girls, maybe even fatter. Nothing separated her from the parade of thunder thighs trooping up the stairs from the locker room to the gym. ↗

— Steven Levenkron

#eating-disorder #fat #thunder-thighs #change

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. ↗

— Bob Marley

#fool #forever #go #know #maybe

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#kent #miracle #sam #steps #chance

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#secret

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ↗

— John Green

#infinities #infinity #tfios #stars

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. ↗

— Voltaire

#evil #greed #labor #need #vice

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity ↗

— George Steiner

#boredom

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. ↗

— Louis C.K.

#boredom

Only boring people get bored. ↗

— Ruth Burke

#boredom #boredom

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#boredom