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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.
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20 Things You Do In Your 20s That You Should Never Do In Your 30s (If You Want To Be Happy)
Living a life of worry and nervousness because you are concerned about what others think of you rather than knowing that only you can be in the best position to…
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14 Nurses And Hospital Workers Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Ever Seen On The Job
“She kept talking about the man in black in the corner.”
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8 Reasons Why Love Is Something You Grow Into (Not Something You Feel Immediately)
Love is something you create, not an emotion that arises out of thin air.
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10 Signs Your Life Is Changing For The Better (Even If It Feels Difficult Right Now)
You feel “lost,” which is just another way of saying you’re detaching from your old ideas about what your life should be, or what the future should hold, and so…
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The 13 Juiciest Tidbits We Learned From ‘Goosebumps’ Author RL Stine’s AMA
At his peak Stine wrote at an incredible pace of one Goosebumps or Fear Street book every 2 weeks.
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What Books To Base Your Life On (From Someone Who Reads A Lot)
I used to go around and ask every smart person I met—even emailing important people I didn’t know— “What books do you recommend to a kid like me?”
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16 Daily Rituals That Will Ensure 2016 Is The Year You Want It To Be
Make one healthier food choice each day. Just one.
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Sometimes I Honestly Wish My Love Was Boring
I try to have easy love, boring love. The kind of love that isn’t written about in poetry, or on walls that witness fighting, or that lingers in scars that…
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40 Signs Your Best Friends Are Basically Your Family
You can trust them not to tag you in any unflattering pictures.
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Do Less: 7 Simple Ways Happy People Spend Their Time
Happy people spend time outside just for the sake of it.
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7 Chivalrous Acts That We Should Still Expect From Modern Dating
Be clear with your intentions. “Hanging out” is not dating, and if you aren’t interested in someone enough to go out on a limb and ask to take them to…
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20 Ways An Older Brother Prepares You For The Big Bad World
He is your technician, your mover, your IT consultant and your handy man. Pretty much he is there to fix anything that needs fixing-including you.
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Ranking The Women On This Season Of ‘The Bachelor’: Who Is Bland Enough To Actually End Up With Ben?
Ben didn’t think it was fair to keep both twins around so instead he pitted them against each other in their childhood home and eliminated one in front of their…
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The Truth About Changing Them
You can’t force someone to love you, to treat you a certain way. To be honest, faithful, supportive, and kind. But you can love yourself enough to acknowledge when you’re…
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12 ‘Healthy’ Foods That Are Making You Fat (Says A Personal Trainer)
A reputable professional dedicated to physical fitness tells us what we’re getting wrong about eating well.
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10 Traumatic (But Also Defining) Mother-Daughter Moments Every Woman Will Relate To
When you realize you sound exactly like her.
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7 Ways To Increase Your Attention Span (Because We’re Apparently Down To 8 Seconds 😱)
“Can you can pay attention longer than a goldfish?”
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Here’s Your ‘Get Out Of Bed’ Pep Talk
We are programmed to strive for improvement, prosperity, success, growth. Challenge, possibility, knowledge, enlightenment. And it’s not even the end goal that actually, truly satisfies us. It’s the experience that…
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11 Signs He’s Different Than The Last Guy (Or Guys) Who Screwed You Over
He cares if you’re upset. He doesn’t ignore your unhappiness, he attempts to understand it.
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20 Creepy Catalog Readers Share The Most Horrifying Thing They Ever Lived Through
“She saw two other men, behind a thick set of bushes, with chains. They had metal chains in their hands and they were hiding.”
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23 Signs You Definitely Weren’t One Of The ‘Popular’ Kids In High School
Everyone’s parents fucking loved you.
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A Thank You From A Former Student Teacher To Her Cooperating Teacher
You believed in me. Me—in my brand new dress pants and pressed shirt and clean cardigan and matching flats, but a nervous hint in my steps—you trusted me.
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46 Valentine’s Day Disaster Stories That Will Make You Want To Stay Single Forever
“I ended up in the hospital after my hair caught fire.”
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9 Signs You’re Becoming A Legit Introvert After Years Of Identifying As An Extrovert
You finally understand why alone time is so great.
