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“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
– Shel Silverstein

Each of us are our own greatest inhibitor. And, at the end of the day, if you just get out of your own way and let things come to you, it’s amazing what will come to you.
-Laird Hamilton

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
-Ayn Rand

“Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.”
– Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)

“Life’s too short… to fight, to be miserable, to let the bitter ones change how awesome you are.”

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photo by Esti

It’s been 75*+ for the last little while in California so you can’t really help me for dreaming of spring. Lately what I’ve been craving are bright, sweet, fresh strawberries… but I guess I’ve still got awhile to go. So until then these will suffice:

This is basically just a grown up version of my obsession with Strawberry Shortcake from when I was wee. Everything is from Anthropologie because, well, they make it too easy.

Your secret from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.

thanks uncle beefy for sharing this.

LOVE this ad campaign for Lipton by Yoann Lemoine. I see a lot more tea parties in my future.

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