1773rd.

"I don't think people love me. They love versions of me I have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. The easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love." - Anonymous


Photo is "Parts" - from EwaGeruzel.

1772nd.

"They were searching for monsters and found each other." - The Resolution


Photo is "Monsters" - from naked-in-the-rain.

1771st.

"People overestimate what they can do in a single day and underestimate what they can do in their whole lives." - Anonymous


Photo is "Expectation" - from m-gosia.

1770th.

"I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses." - Sylvia Plath


Photo is "Restless" - from IreneShpak.

1769th.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson


Photo is "Liberated" - from JenaDellaGrottaglia.

1768th.

"I don't know if some of you have been to these live reads at LACMA, where a classic film is read live on stage by actors who just sit and read the script. We did one recently, but we reversed the gender roles. All the women played men; all the men played women. And it was so fascinating to be a part of this because, as the women took on these central roles - they had all the good lines, they had all the good laughs, all the great moments - the men who joined us to sit on stage started squirming rather uncomfortably and got really bored because they weren't used to being the supporting cast.'" - Olivia Wilde


Photo is "Role Reversal" - from Clazziquai.

1767th.

"Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile." - William Cullen Bryant


Photo is "Autumn Fire" - from Nate-Zeman.

1766th.

"[White woman Rooney Mara is cast to play Tiger Lily in Pan.] But Tiger Lily being a problematic character isn't an excuse to cast a non-Native American actress. Rather, it's the same as it was with The Lone Ranger: The key to bringing a racial caricature forward to the modern day isn't to disregard that person's race but to change the character so they're not a racial caricatures. Jesus Christ. It's not that hard. There's something to be said for 'loyalty to source material.' but 'early 1900s racism is not one of the things you need to keep.'" - Rebecca Pahle


Photo is "Racism" - from JeanFan.

1765th.

"Oh my god, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen." - Anne Lamott


Photo is "No Regrets" - from CrystalWallLancaster.

1764th.

"Let me tell you a story. Once at a party, I had all the little girls sitting around me and I was asking them about their favorite parts of all the princess movies. The birthday girl was sitting next to me, and she tells, 'Princess, your skin is the same color as mine.' I smile and agree, and try to move the game along, but she interrupts and says, 'Your skin is brown and you're a princess. It's the same color as mine, but you're a princess.' 'Well, my skin is brown and your skin is brown, and I'm a princess, then you must be a princess too,' I tell her. And then I spent the next 10 minutes assuring all the black girls at the party that yes, they have lovely skin and yes, they can be princesses with me. This happens at most of the parties I go to. I have had my arm stroked, my hair patted, my skin color commented on more times than I can remember. I am not simply hired out to entertain a bunch of cute little girls dressed in poofy skirts who want to play with a big girl in a poofier skirt. I am hired out because I am an affirmation. Fore these little black girls (and boys! I've dazzled a few of them too) Princess Tiana is proof that for once, they can be special BECAUSE of the color of their skin, not IN SPITE OF." - Lyrique86


Photo is "Princess of Heart - Tiana" - from Nippy13.