Go to university, but go for the right reasons. Education isn’t a gun held to your head: it’s a weapon in your hands. Go not because you’re afraid of not getting a job but go because you love to learn, because you’re excited by ideas, because you believe that education is important for its own sake, and when you get there, pay attention, read everything you can get your hands on, cram yourself with words and figures and ideas, because that’s the one thing they can never take away from you.
-Laurie Penney, The Independent, August 2012   (via wanduring)

Tell them you don’t know how Eve felt
when she saw Adam in one hand, and the rest of the fucking universe in the other.

Tell them you don’t know how Eve felt
when she wanted the universe.

-Caitlyn Siehl, Maybe Eve Was a Wild Thing

(via wanduring)

So you need to reshuffle your ideas of the world. Let’s start here: We are all sub-intellectual, petty, mediocre, nervous, unsure. This is not a terrible revelation that’s personal to you and you alone. It’s a description of human nature. We are jittery animals who doubt ourselves. The brazen, confident animals among us got eaten by lions centuries ago. The neurotics survived.
-Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly 9/23/15 (via emmaylor)