People are going to mock you if you have ambition. If you have high hopes for yourself, they’re going to try to bring you down to their level. If you have the drive to back up your dreams, they’re going to crash into you as many times as they can; they’ll tell you you can’t do it; they’ll try to shame you for believing in yourself; they’ll do anything in their power to make you content with mundanity, to sacrifice what you want and stop wanting more.
Don’t listen to them. The reason they’re putting the effort in to try to kill your passion is because they’re threatened - they know that it’s the people who think they can shake things up & change the world who’ve got the balls to go for it, and they know without the balls you’ve got nothing. They know they’ve got nothing.
If someone’s taking the time to tell you you can’t do something, take it as a compliment. It means that somewhere deep down, they know you’ve got the power to do exactly that.
This feels so relevant today.
VJ x
(via kaitmpayne)
twenty-two. 
