You’re responsible for your own development. You don’t have to wait until others forgive or validate you. You don’t have to hold yourself to an impossible standard to ‘prove’ that you’re a better person. All you have to do is decide that you are and back that up with actions, because what truly makes you a good person is the fact that you care about being one. Not others telling you that you are.
— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964
[text ID: I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.]
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Don’t keep pushing yourself until you have nothing left. Rest. Replenish.
“I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.”
— Zoe Saldana (via perrfectly)