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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

Why is it so hard to accept things as they are? Why do we struggle and fight against the inevitable? Is it the knowledge that things could be better? Or is it the hope? The hope that if things were different, we would be different. Better. Stronger. Complete.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

—Maya Angelou (via bitchville)

She’s being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

—David Levithan, Every Day (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: unstrungheroine, via creatingaquietmind)