i’m mentally ill too but fucking listen to me here. you need to take responsibility for your actions regardless of whether or not they’re a product of your mental illness. you don’t get to manipulate, gaslight, take advantage of, or straight up abuse people because you’re mentally ill! you don’t! what the fuck! why are some of you still thinking it’s okay to say things like “manipulation is okay because i have _____ and need attention from my significant other” oh my god. Don’t fucking do that
Hey guys! Haven’t made a quotes masterpost in a while, so I created one for the composes! And I know it’s a different header format, but I wanted to try it out! As always, I hope you enjoy these quotes and find them inspirational, like I have.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Johannes Brahms
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
Virgil Thomson
“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”
“I don’t go around regretting things that don’t happen.”
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Franz Schubert
“Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.”
“The moment is supreme.”
“The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.”
“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”
Gustav Mahler
“It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
“Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”
“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
“It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”
“Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.”
“The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”
“I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas – I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
Claude Debussy
“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
John Cage
“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”
“We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
“When we separate music from life we get art.”
Leonard Bernstein
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
Franz Liszt
“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”
“Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”
George Gershwin
“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”
“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”
“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”
“It is always possible to create something original.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the divine.”
sometimes i have too many emotions and sometimes i have none at all but i always always feel like i’m drowning
Learn how to swim Bitch
i made this post when i was in A Mood and all the replies are so angst and depressing except this Whole Ass Mood. Learn how to swim Bitch it’s 2018 we’re dealing with our problems
i knew in the 2nd grade that standardized testing was bullshit. harry potter book 4 had just come out and i was at a good part. harry had just put his name into the goblet of fire.
during the standardized test, we were allowed to keep a post-test book on our desk. i diligently got started on part 1: english. at the time, all of the answers went on the same sheet, but all of the questions were in different booklets. so i finish all my english questions, read in my extra time, and then it’s part 2: math.
i realize i have answered all of my english questions on the math portion of the answer sheet. at first, annoyed but undeterred, i’m like. okay great i gotta erase every bubble. but i get bored around question 5 of doing this because… like… harry potter is sitting on my desk and i could just give them the wrong answers. so i answer maybe 10 whole questions in the math portion, copy the english answers over to where they actually belong, and then crack open the book and call it a day.
i obviously failed. this is the real life, not a movie. my parents were called in. i had scored in the lowest percentile. i was bad at math. i was concerningly bad at math. i could have done better just guessing than how i did with the english answers.
if this was just a funny story, someone would ask me “why did you do so badly when you usually get fairly average grades” and i would have said “i wanted to read harry potter, not take this stupid test.” but it’s the real life, and nobody asked. instead, i was branded stupid and bad at math. i got placed in a lower math than i needed to be in; got bored, stopped paying attention. knew i was in the “worst at math” group, started saying “i’m bad at math” and 100% stopped trying because the further i fell behind, the worse i got. through the rest of my academic career – until senior year in high school, i never got above a c on a math test, because i was “just bad” at math.
i had undiagnosed adhd. the only reason i know now i have adhd is because at 22 years old, i finally went to a therapist, who effectively said, “are you kidding me you have the most obvious case of attention deficit i’ve ever seen.”
but nobody had been looking. my one test grade had given teachers permission to not look, because, obviously, i was bad at math. the one time i got 100% on a math test – that one time in senior year – i remember my math teacher looking at it and saying “it’s clear that if you just focused, you could do the work.”
in college i’d take a math class and i actually “just focused” for the first time in my life – meaning i treated math as a challenge, but one i could overcome with the skills i’d learned all on my own, through constant work and practice. i got the highest grade in my class. i still think i’m bad at math.
which makes me wonder: how many people got fucked over because of something stupid like “i was too preoccupied with harry potter”. who had nobody looking out for them. who slipped under the radar because – come on, aren’t some people just bad at things?
No one is bad at a subject in school. Some subjects are just harder for some people’s brains to grasp the way they’ve been taught. If a kid isn’t doing well, don’t destroy their future school years by saying they’re ‘bad at x’ give them more ATTENTION. Ask them if they need help. Ask them how you can explain this better. You’re a TEACHER. Your job is for every kid to leave your class confident in what they’ve learned, not spit out a curriculum and leave the kids to fend for themselves.
There isn’t ‘bad at math’ there’s ‘i don’t understand what you’re saying’ or ‘i keep forgetting the formulas’-which can be fixed with a differently worded explanation or some flash cards.
There isn’t ‘bad at english’ there’s ‘I don’t see the message you’re telling us is there’ or ‘it’s too much and i’m confused’. This can be fixed with another explanation, or breaking down the information.
There isn’t ‘bad at science’ there’s ‘all these terms are making my head spin’ or ‘i just don’t get WHY’. This can be fixed by focusing on the broader topics and not all the little terms, or letting them keep pages of definitions, or trying to explain the connection in more detail.
There isn’t ‘bad at history’ there’s just ‘i’m bad at remembering dates’ and ‘this class is boring’, which can be fixed by maybe giving them the dates first and then filling in what happened (what happened in the year 500) or spicing up the curriculum! Have them put on skits, write stories, draw pretty diagrams!
If a kid is failing in a subject, it doesn’t mean they’re stupid. It means the WAY they’re being taught isn’t working for their brain.
-sincerely, an autistic lizard who gets good grades, but still gets extremely frustrated and gives up if i have trouble understand something, sucked at history until my teacher made it fun, and definitely wouldn’t be where I am today without adults who were willing to sit down and work with me until I figured it out.
This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was.
Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”
All conversation died.
I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.
The Devil’s Advocate was among us.
And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.
So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away.
Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken – as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.
tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.
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