Kim Quindlen
I’m a staff writer for Thought Catalog. I like comedy and improv. I live in Chicago. My Uber rating is just okay.
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Find The Person You Want To Write A Life With
They are not writing your story for you. They are writing it with you, giving you the chance to twine your path with theirs, so that everything is twice as interesting, twice as thrilling, twice as challenging, twice as incredible. Twice as everything.
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What To Look For When You’re Ready To Find Love
Find someone who makes you want to choose to love them. Sometimes we're conditioned to think that it should be easy, that our hearts will do all the work, that loving them will be simple because aren't we just so lucky to have found it?! But really, love is hard. Love is really, really hard.
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Why You Need To Love Yourself First Before You Can Love Someone Else
Figure out who you are when you're on your own. So when someone does come around, you can form a completely new world together, instead of simply falling into theirs.
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21 April Ludgate-isms To Help You Lead Your Best Life
"I don't want to do things. I want to not do things."
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23 Tiny Things You Can Do For Yourself When You’re Feeling Listless And Uninspired
Pay attention to the little things your body is able to do that you always take for granted – walking, stretching, hearing, seeing, being able to feed yourself. The more you pay attention, the more you'll realize these are not little things at all.
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I Doubt Myself The Most Late At Night
There's something about lying under the covers at night. And staring up at the ceiling. And being totally alone with your thoughts – even if there's someone sleeping right beside you. There's something about this moment that allows the ugly part of your brain to take over for an instant, or a while. Because this…
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19 Encouraging (And Funny) Lin-Manuel Miranda Tweets To Inspire The Artist Within You
Good night. Take a second. You have a day's worth of new stuff in your brain. File away what you need, empty trash files. Get comfy. Sleep. –Lin-Manuel Miranda
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For Every College Senior: A Goodbye To The Soulmates You Found Over The Last Four Years
What I will remember as I leave this place is that it will hurt because of you. It will hurt because you brought me such joy, such laughter, and such pure happiness. You taught me things you don't even know that you taught me. You are part of the reason that I am a different…
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23 Unromantic Signs That You’ve Found Your Soulmate
Your PDA is relatively nonexistent. At this point you have so more fun with smirks across the table while sharing an inside joke, private smiles or goofy faces when you make eye contact across the room at a party, and any other communication you have in public that is shared only between the two of…
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A Shonda Rhimes-esque Monologue For Every Discouraged 20-Something Out There
So, you're tired. Directionless. Frustrated. Maybe a little disheartened. Trying so hard to live your life in your own way, but still frequently weighed down by unavoidably comparing yourself to others. Wanting to not care what people think, and sometimes being successful and other times caring so hard.
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12 Signs You’re On The Right Path In Your Life (Even If You Feel Totally Insecure)
You feel afraid more often than you feel comfortable.
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17 Reasons You Should Date A Woman Who Lives In Complete Chaos
She can be flexible with plans, with mood swings, with bad news, with whatever comes your way. She's used to constantly adapting and readapting to whatever is thrown at her, so when you're in a stressful situation, she's an ideal partner to have standing by your side.
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The Deeper The Love, The Deeper The Pain
You lose sleep. You lose weight. Or gain it. You develop circles under your eyes. You lack a desire to do anything. All the energy left within you is being spent on adjusting to this new reality, to the person you are without them. You feel like a stranger in your own body and your…
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This Is How We Love In Our Twenties
We want love to be fast, instant, and available, so that we don't even have time to think. We want love to be a commodity, because that's what makes the most sense to us, because that's how everything in our world works. We see something, we're told we're supposed to want it, and then we…
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16 People On The ‘Nerdiest’ Thing They Were Ever Attracted To In Another Person
"Him and his brother went to every single Harry Potter movie midnight premiere together, like every single one. Even if they were living in different cities during the release date, one of them would travel to the other one so they could see it together. It was one of the strangest, sweetest things I've ever…
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23 High School Experiences That Kids Born After 2000 Will Never Understand
Still being able to use Wikipedia in your research papers, because teachers had not yet realized that it was not a credible source.
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23 One-Sentence Reminders You Need To Hear When You’re Feeling Completely Lost
Remember that in a year from now, the small thing that is causing you so much worry and angst today will barely register as a blip in your thoughts down the line.
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Spice It Up: 10 Generic Things To Make Your Own This Week
It’s easy to fall into the trap of monotony in our day-to-day existence. Try adding a little more lightness into your day through some very simple actions.