Carousel v. 35

1. Little Wisdoms.

"Look at yourself and remember, people in far worse situations have done far more difficult things than this."

"There’s a difference between being agreeable and agreeing to everything. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust the little inner voice when it’s telling you, 'This is a bad idea.'"

"There are seven billion people in the world; don’t waste your time by letting one of them ruin your happiness. You are good enough, smart enough, beautiful enough, and strong enough. Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer."

2. ABC Monsters

3. 50 Reasons Not to Kill Yourself 
"I've put together this list for everyone out there who knows flattening dangerous levels of depression all too well. Thank you for reading this and for existing for me to love you right now."

4. Life Advice From Ron Swanson

5. 10 Famous Literary Characters Based on Real People

"Mark Twain once admitted that he wasn’t terribly creative in creating Huckleberry Finn – he based the character almost precisely on his childhood friend Tom Blankenship. From his autobiography:

“In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. His liberties were totally unrestricted. He was the only really independent person—boy or man—in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. And as his society was forbidden us by our parents the prohibition trebled and quadrupled its value, and therefore we sought and got more of his society than any other boy’s.”

Sadly, according to the editor’s notes in Twain’s posthumous autobiography, Blankenship was repeatedly arrested for theft and died just five years after Huckleberry Finn was published."

6. Bill Nye Tho