Movie Quotes That Stayed With Me

I'm one of these people who really love quotes. As in, everytime I hear one I like I write it down or screenshot it; as in I keep a little booklet of my favorite quotes. It might be a weird hobby, but at least I'm not into something like doing drugs, right?

As a big bookworm, I have a whole lot of favorite book quotes - which I've already shared some of on here - but do you know where people also drop some really amazing lines? In movies.

To be fair, I watch a lot more TV shows than I watch movies, but I still love the occasional movie night with my family or friends - and because of that, I also have my fair share of favorite quotes from all kinds of movies which, due to popular demand, I want to share with you today!

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1. "The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it." - The Lion King.

2. "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love." - The Notebook.

3. "Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

4. "After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are." -Shrek.

5. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - The Phantom Menace.

6. "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Dead Poets Society.

7. "Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself." - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

8. "Only a real risk can test the reality of a belief." - God's Not Dead.

9. "You don't have time to be timid. You must be bold and daring." - Beauty and the Beast.

10. "I am in love with you. And I know that love is just a shout in the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed, and that the sun will swallow the only earth that we will ever have. And I am in love with you." - The Fault in Our Stars.

11. "Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved." - Winnie the Pooh.

12. "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it." - The Breakfast Club.

13. "Lesbian? Her birthday's in March. I thought she was a Pisces." - Bend It Like Beckham.

14. "Sometimes the right path is not the easy one." - Pocahontas.


What are some of your favorite movie quotes?

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Why Going a Month without Make Up Was the Best Thing I've Ever Done

Doing my make up used to be a mandatory step in my morning routine. It was kind of like brushing my teeth - something I did without having to think about it, something that I did so much that leaving that step out of my routine would have felt a little weird.

I can't think of a time when I didn't leave the house without at least the smallest hint of make up, and to be honest, I think there were some people in my year at school who haven't ever seen me completely bare-faced before at all - until recently.

Because halfway through March, I decided something had to change.
I was struggling with some really ugly skin conditions, and I felt horrible just thinking about leaving the house without covering them up, but I also knew that they'd never heal if I didn't let my skin breathe.

So I stopped wearing make up.
And while that short sentence might seem so underwhelming to some, it was quite a big step for me. But it was also a very important one because I learnt so much during that time!

For one, my skin did in fact get better.

I've realized that being covered in make up for eight to ten hours a day could just not be healthy for my skin, and letting it breathe by just washing it every morning and night did so much for it, as did the sun rays that for once actually reached my skin without the layers of foundation and concealer covering it up.

My face has almost healed completely by now, which makes me so happy I could weep - that's also why I've only started introducing minimal products like mascara back into my routine.

What's even more important, however, is what it did for me as a person.
I think most people struggle with confidence, or more so lack thereof, and so do I - especially regarding my appearance and my skin. I've actually dedicated an entire post to explaining how I've been struggling with coming to terms with my skin for years.

Keeping that in mind, it might be clear why I was so damn scared of walking around bare-faced in public, especially during the early stages when my face still looked a little like I fell into stinging nettles face first.
But even though I've had some nasty comments dropped behind my back - only from people I didn't even know and most of whom were even younger than me - I've started feeling better and better in my own skin every day.

Now that we're almost halfway through June and I've only recently started wearing some mascara and lipstick here and there, I can wholeheartedly say that I don't give a shit anymore.
I've realised that the only person who has live with this skin is esentially me, therefore no one else should be bothering with how I look so long as I'm okay with it. And I'm fine with it, I'm finally contended with how my skin is doing, even though it's nowhere near perfect.
If I've taken one lesson out of this time, it's this - I have to feel good in my own skin and live with it every single day, not anyone else.

And one the other hand, to end this post on a little less depressing note because how the hell do I always end up going so deep into topics like this, I'm so deep I can literally see hell, it actually even helped me save money!
I love make up, it was and still is a great passion of mine so I ocassionally - okay, more often than I'd like to admit - splurge on products, even when I know that I technically don't need them.

However, not wearing make up in the first place also meant that I really considered every purchase twice and often ended up not buying anything at all!

Going without make up for over a month had really positive effects on me - but have you ever gone without it for a longer time? What did you experience?

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20 Things to Do This Summer

Summer is hands down my favorite season, from the fact that I'm off school and work to the warm days and overall positive vibes, everything about the season makes me feel like so well, calm and contended that I could probably conquer the world.

As much as I love lazy days spent in my bed watching my favorite TV shows, I often tend to feel so unproductive when the sun's beaming down and everyone's enjoying their day.
Sometimes, however, my mind just somehow goes blank and I get really stuck on what I want to do - if you, like me, are always looking for things to do during your summer holidays, the following list could give you an idea or two to try out!

1. Have a barbecue - is there any other food that reminds you of summer any more than barbecues do?

2. Be a tourist in your own city - explore places you haven't paid any attention to before, try new restaurants, maybe even do some really cliché, touristy things. You'll be suprised by how much you've been missing out on.

3. Give yourself a day when you can have a reaaally long sleep in without regretting one minute of it. Sometimes a girl just needs to sleep until 2pm, alright?

4. Don't use your phone for an entire day. When you're away during summer, you want to relax as much as possible, and not checking Twitter or your emails every two minutes can do wonders for that.

5. Go stagrazing, whether it's in your backyard or elsewhere.

6. Try out a new recipe - I've shared a few of my favorites here!

7. Go on a road trip. It doesn't matter how far your drive or what your destination is, there's just something about the feeling of freedom I get when on road trips that's so addictive!

8. Treat yourself to something you've had your eyes on for a while, whether it's a clothing item or even just some nail polish!

9. Give back - I feel like summer is the time I often find myself astonished by how many amazing people I have in my life that I don't appreciate enough, so I like doing something nice for them to make them at least as happy as the make me!

10. Have a closet cleanout and give the clothes you don't wear anymore to charity. And I mean all the clothes. Don't tell yourself you'll wear that shirt sometime when you haven't put it on once during the past three years.

11. Have a movie night in with your family or friends. Topped of with tons of snacks such as popcorn, nachos and gummy bears, those are my favorite kinds of nights!

12. Cut negativity out of your life. Summer is the time to feel incredible and have a great time, so why let toxic people or situations drag you down?

13. Read a your favorite magazine or a good book outside. There's nothing like lying on the gras while the sun is shining on your face!

14. Grab your friends, bring some food and have a picnic at the park on a warm evening.

15. Go to a funfair, have some cotton candy, ride a roller coaster and scream at the top of your lungs!

16. Pick berries at a local farm. This is one of my favorite summer activities, it's so much fun and besides taking home some sweet snacks, you can also sneak some of them into your mouth while you're picking them.

17. Go to a music festival or an outdoor concert and dance and sing well into the night.

18. Go for a swim in a lake. It's been so long since I swam outside your regular pool and I've been missing it a lot!

19. Go kayaking or canoeing - I've only tried kayaking once but it was so much fun!

20. Dance in a summer rainstorm. Feeling the warm rain on your skin is such an incredible feeling, and forgetting about everything while dancing in the rain, even if it's just for a few minutes, can do such great things for your soul.


What's something you really want to do this summer?

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The Device That Got Rid of My Acne for Good

Acne is a very unpleasant topic, especially if you've been dealing with it for a long period of time and not a single one of the products you've piled up over the years seems to work for your skin.

I've recently mentioned how much I've been struggling with my recent wave of breakouts when I talked about my favorite skin care range for problematic skin, but like most skin care products do when it comes to my skin, even those products have their limits.

However, I was pointed into the direction of a fairly new invention by a friend of my Mom's in early April - a device that is supposed to rid your skin of acne and work to prevent further breakouts.
I was more than sceptical about this, to say the least, but after testing it for two months, I can report that I'm officially acne-free - thanks to Face-Up!

The Czech company which developed the Face-Up devices claims it to employ magnetic fields and warmth to accelerate your body's metabolism, which means that it will at first make your spots grow at an immense speed, only for them to reduce in size after just a few days until they eventually disappear completely. Effects - as in, acne-free skin - are likely to show between the first 14 to 30 days after the first use.

Using the device is fairly easy.
After turning it on, its lower side (as shown in the photo above) will show a red, pulsing light. I usually let the device run for around five minutes before I start using it on my face so that it's already warm.
Then I touch the device to my face and move it in circular motions over an area of my face that shows spots or redness for 10 minutes. After those 10 minutes have passed, I move on to the next area.

Now, onto the actual effects my skin showed due to my usage of Face-Up!

It's definitely true that the skin gets worse before it gets better, While my face was already covered in pretty big spots, but within the first few days of using this, they turned into actual bumps. And I mean real big bumps that visbily stood out from my face. It was gross, to say the least.
Besides that, a lot of new spots started to emerge from their hiding place within the first week.

I knew that that was what's supposed to happen, but I couldn't help feeling discouraged.
However, after around two and a half weeks of usage, my skin started to clear up more and more. Smaller red patches were fading nicely, smaller spots were almost not noticeable - only the really big bumps took a little over three weeks to finally get gone.

What's really positive, though, is that none of the breakouts and other skin problems such as rashes and extremly dry skin have come back to haunt me - after using this amazing invention for just a little under two months, all that's left of an entire face that was once covered in spots are some little red spots of healing skin where the spots once were.

To summarize it - if you're suffering from acne and nothing seems to work for you, I'd wholeheartedly recommend this to you because it works insanely well.
Usage wise, it's feels really pleasant on the skin, besides the fact that it can get a little warm.

With a price tag of 179€, it's quite the investment, but in my eyes it's better to splurge on this device once as it gives you such great results than to buy products that don't work half as well.

Have you ever tried a device similar to this one?

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The Fear of Failure

If there's something about me that shows in my entire personality, in my temper - basically everything that makes me myself, it's the fact that I'm a complete and utter perfectionist.

I've always been this way, ever since I was a little peanut and still went to primary school - I had to get my work done precisely, and I wouldn't rest until everything was completed perfectly. Back then, that was alright, and my parents were so proud of their little girl who always excelled at everything, the over-achiever, the primary example.

Somewhere along the way, however, I feel like my perfectionism has turned into something unhealthy.
I mean, it's great when your inner strenght wins over your wish to procastinate all the time and you get things done, and you do them well, but for me it's started to feel like so much pressure. Like I pressure myself to be nothing but perfect when that's all but possible.

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I'm extremly scared of failure. There, I said it out loud.
It's what I've been trying to hide from people - getting smiles and hugs and recognition for doing well is great and all that, but I don't think my parents or friends would tear me apart and feed me to the lions if I ever didn't suceed at something.

I'm my own problem.
I want to so badly for myself to do well, which on one hand is healthy because after all, my entire future depends on the work I do and the choices I make leading up to my twenties, but I put so much pressure on myself that it stops me from doing all the great things I want to do.

I'm not going to lie, the days when I feel so teribble that I don't even want to approach my desks have been increasing, especially since classes and work started again on Monday.
Monday was literally my first day back, and it was enough to have me sitting in front of my Mom, crying because I felt so overwhelmed by everything that was thrown at me, even though none of it was particularly bad and outrageous.

And the awkward duckling I am, I don't really know how to explain how I feel to others, because to be honest it's hard to put into words when I think about it in my head as well, because until recently I didn't even realize how unhealthy my behaviour was starting to be.
Besides that, I feel like such a whiny twat reading all of this. It makes me cringe because I know that other people would love to do as well regarding education and work as I am and I must seem so ungrateful. If I do, I'm sorry - that's not what I'm trying to come off as.

The problem with this entire situation is that I don't know how to step back from all my work and responsibilities, sitting down and watching some episodes of my favorite TV shows is basically impossible because I always have all the things I could be getting done nagging at me while I try to relax, so other people telling me to "just chill" or "take your time and take a step back" might be really nice and want to help, but sadly it doesn't help me at all.


I don't know why I'm ranting to you all about this, but I do know that I really had to get this off my chest. And maybe there's someone else who is in a situation similar to mine?

I'd love to hear your story or thoughts on this subject as I feel it affects a lot of young people nowadays!

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