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20 Quotes From 20 Incredible Minds That Will Encourage You To Be Vulnerable
“Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment. It is the birthplace of everything we’re hungry for.” – Brené Brown
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14 Bernie Sanders-Themed Dank Memes That Will Have You LOLing (Whether You’re Super Political Or Not)
“You make me as hard as it is to live in this economy.”
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12 Things You Definitely Need To Know Before Dating A Scientist
They have the curiosity of a child and enjoy exploring the world around them.
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5 Judgements People Instantly Make About You Based On Your Profile Picture
It doesn’t take long for people to form an impression about you. One glance at a social media profile picture and they will jump to conclusions about who you are.
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13 Men Share Their Worst Boner Kill Experiences With Women During Foreplay
“She started talking about Hillary Clinton. Enough said.”
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The Truth About Being A Strong Woman
This is the misconception about strong women: that we are difficult to love.
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23 Times Instagram’s ‘Daddy Issues’ Inspired You To Be The Best Slut You Can Be
When she wisely reminded you that “life is to short to pretend u don’t like getting choked during sex.”
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10 Amazing Things That Start Happening When You Stop Giving A Sh*t About Being Weird
While a level of awareness is good, being too obsessed with if/how we might embarrass ourselves can keep us from so many experiences. If you accept that, sometimes, you’re going…
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25 Lessons About Beauty We Should Teach Girls When They’re Little
Your existence and worth as a human being is not attached to whether the world finds you beautiful.
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10 Absurd Misconceptions People Have About The Quintessential Nice Girl
Just because we go with the flow doesn’t mean we can’t change our course.
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50 One-Sentence Reminders Every 20-Something Needs To Hear Right Now
At the age of 23, Oprah was getting fired and Walt Disney was declaring bankruptcy.
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Here’s What To Get Your Significant Other For Valentine’s Day Based On Their Myers-Briggs Personality Type
Finding the perfect Valentine’s Day present is never an easy feat. Whether you’re shopping for a starry-eyed idealist or a down-to-earth realist, we’ve got you covered.
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12 Of The Most Romantic Gestures From History That Put Modern Romance To Shame
A dozen of the most elaborate, enduring, and heartwarming expressions of true love in world history.
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10 Brutally Honest Reasons Why Long-Term Couples Actually Stay Together
They’re terrified of breaking up—from a logistical standpoint.
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This Is How The Right Person Will Love You
Someone who wants to work out with you and eat a tub of Nutella with you on a Friday night.
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This Is How I Will Choose You
Meet someone who won’t make you question your thoughts and your feelings. Meet someone who makes you feel safe. Meet someone you are scared to lose every day, but someone…
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Everything I’ve Learned About Friendship From A Man Who Will Never Love Me
You see, we are more than our physical appearance or our sexual performance. And our ability to make the commitment to stay faithful, even in friendship, can be just as…
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20 Unexpected Ways Your Daily Life Changes When You’re Suddenly Single Again
Something relatively simple happens, like finding $20, or getting the best parking spot in the lot, or a 25 cent raise, and you can’t wait to share it…but you get…
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15 Surefire Ways To Make Your Morning Suck A Little Less
Pick out your outfit the night before. The less you have to think about when you wake up, the better. Plus, heading out the door feeling confident about what you’re…
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‘Making A Murderer’: Fake Alliances, Fake Allegiances, And Planted Evidence
“It is exhausting to tune into. I don’t know how these people lived life this way. More backstabbing and fake faces forward and lies and competition and cover-up than I…
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22 Times You Need To Stop Comparing Yourself To Other People And Live Your Own F*cking Life
Any time you talk yourself out of wearing a piece of clothing, dying your hair, or doing your makeup a certain way because you think it’s just “not you.” The…
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10 Signs That You’re In A Completely Toxic Friendship
Some friendships are so negative that they’re unhealthy for you. It doesn’t make you a bad person to want these friends gone from your life; it’s actually better to deal…
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When Your Parent Loses A Parent
You know that it’s “just what happens.” You know that it’s the “circle of life.” But those kinds of phrases and truths are so much harder to digest when they…
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10 Relationship Mistakes I Made In My 20s That I Know Never To Make Again
Mistakes are meant to happen but if you don’t learn from them, you’ll never grow or get what you’re looking for.
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10 Grisly Crime Scenes Described By Police And Social Workers
“Found a guy shot 8 times, died right there, shot through the eye and throat.”
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In Bed With You I Whisper: ‘Please, Please, Please’
There is no more silence left here, not in this room. I fill it up. Cheeping voices from @handles. Facebook posts lambasting presidents and showing off stepping stones, I bought…
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This Is The Incredible Power Of Love After Loss
In a single second you can cross a street, you can whisper ‘I love you,’ you can take off in an airplane, you can feel your stomach drop, you can…
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10 Painful Questions You Inevitably Ask Yourself After A Bad Breakup
He loved you, boo. He did, he does, and he probably will for a while.
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The Power Of Regret (And Why You Should Always Choose Courage)
Regret’s power however, is in its sense of permanence.
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18 Ways I Don’t Want You To Prove Your Masculinity To Me
Guess what, boo? I didn’t want to bang you before you cracked that dude’s head against a wall, and I sure as fuck do not wanna drop trou now.
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13 Of The All-Time Most Inspiring Award Show Acceptance Speeches
Relive some of the most beloved and amazing moments of award show history from the Emmys to the Oscars and from the 60s to the 2000s.
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In A World Full Of People Who Leave, I’ll Stay
The grass might be greener somewhere else and there might be someone out there in the world that I am better suited for. But I don’t have any desire to…
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This Is Chris Pratt’s Inspirational Advice For Anyone Who’s Thinking Of Giving Up On Their Dreams
“And I never had a plan B. I never stopped believing. Ever. Don’t give up.”
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Why Being An Introvert Means You’re Better Than Everybody Else
Introverts tend to mind their own business because they legit don’t care about extrovert’s drama. Extroverts tend to exaggerate even the most pointless, boring of events.
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Why The World Needs Each Myers-Briggs Personality Type
The world needs ENFJs to guide and mentor those who cannot find a way to go on.
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22 Things To Keep In Mind When You’re Having A No Good, Very Bad Day
How you’re feeling right now isn’t a life sentence or a permanent state.
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Read This If You Can’t Forget Someone Who Has Already Forgotten You
Instead of forcing yourself to try, in vain, to forget that person, I want you to free yourself to remember them.
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I Should Have Left You Behind In 2015
I want to cry you out. I want to get you out of my system. I want to forget about you. I want to move on from you. I want…
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11 Things You’ll Learn In College That Don’t Have Anything To Do With Classes
It took me a little while longer to realize this, but it’s almost naïve to think people really care about what you’re doing. Unless you’re a celebrity people aren’t generally…
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19 Fascinating Hebrew Words That Don’t Have Any Direct Translation In English
Firgun: To have a generous, unselfish spirit and a joy in the accomplishment of someone else. It is having an empathic joy for something good that has happened. It means…
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17 Larry David Quotes That Are Perfect For Anyone With A Dry Sense Of Humor
“I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.”
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Should White Women Be Considered A Minority In The United States?
As has been continuously said by people of color, the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action has been white women.
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Read This If You’re Terrified Of The Future
Think of failure as a battle you lost but a war you could still win.. Think of failure as a complicated friend rather than a vile enemy.
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Platonic Life Partners: 5 Men And Women On What It’s Like To Marry For Friendship (Not Sex)
“He’s my best friend and I don’t believe anyone has ever understood me in the way he does. There’s still flowers and breakfast in bed and long walks together and…
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9 Reasons The Happiest People You Know Are Those Who Have Conquered The Taboo Of Quitting
QUIT the uncertainty of love. Quit your toxic relationship; either the one that you are currently in that’s making you miserable, or the one that you can’t define.
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23 Hilarious Political E-Cards That Sum Up The Election Better Than You Ever Could
“Congratulations to the GOP on having your biggest embarrassment endorse your second biggest embarrassment.”
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3 Things Women Mistakenly Think Will Bring Him Closer When He’s Pulling Away
One of the scariest things that can happen to your relationship is when the man who you felt such a great connection with, who you felt so close to, starts…
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15 Powerful Ways To Change Your Life When You Feel Lost
Be honest with yourself. You’ll never be able to fix your life until you admit it’s broken. Don’t pretend everything is okay when it’s not.
