Originally from https://www.buzzfeed.com/gyanyankovich/this-is-water?utm_term=4ldqpia
For those times you need something to remind you that everything will be okay.
"When they go low, we go high."
Michelle Obama's speech at this year's Democratic National Convention wasn't just about politics. This quote is about dealing with all bullies, regardless of the situation.
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"Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you."
In 2014, Jim Carrey gave the commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management. It's all real as hell, but this line in particular is really important for anyone going through a hard time: "And when I say, 'Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you', I really don’t know if that’s true. I’m just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way."
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"This is water."
In 2005, David Foster Wallace gave a commencement address at Kenyon College. This speech was later published as an essay and as a book titled This Is Water. If you listen to the address from beginning to end, you'll come to understand that the ability of the old, wise fish to be aware of the water in which he swims is a metaphor for the conscious, self-aware, mindful existence Wallace is trying to encourage.
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"Just be Stevie Nicks."
When Tavi Gevinson was 16, she gave a TED Talk, "A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out". The talk is about a lot of things. It's about what it means to be a feminist, a teenage girl, and the complex struggle of being both at the same time. She ends the talk with the solid advice to "just be Stevie Nicks" because, according to Tavi, she is all things.
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