You are the universe.

If your time is not going towards your hopes and dreams then neither are you.

- Scot Anderson (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

We are all the sum totals of every positive image we have seen in our lives. But when you don’t see yourself, you can begin to question your importance. Thirty-six million people watched the 2015 Academy Awards, which reached over 200 countries around the world. The lack of of diversity during the telecast is sending a clear message to a majority of the audience that you too don’t deserve to be recognized.

If the Academy doesn’t want the world to believe that a new incarnation of the blacklist is ‘circulating,’ keeping people of different cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities from working and being recognized, then change needs to happen now. This year we can only hope that we will see more diversity among the Oscar nominees for the sake of those millions of people worldwide who watch the Academy Awards. They hope to be seen and validated through the win of someone who looks like them.

- The Academy Must Honor More Than Straight White Men | Karamo Brown for the Advocate
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Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

- Bob Schieffer (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

Sensitive souls always possess a consciousness that absorbs the weight of the world. It’s like their central nervous system is connected to the Earth’s core.

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