Xennial Memes

Topics Adulting

Motivational Advice

A white subway-tile wall with a wooden-framed panel lit by lamps and draped with green ivy above. Black capital letters read: "BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SUCK AT SOMETHING NEW." A sidewalk curb and dark street run below. Photo of a mountain road that has collapsed into a huge gap, with a raised broken slab of asphalt on the far side. A yellow diamond road sign reads "JUST SPEED UP A BIT". A smaller yellow sign below it reads "YOU GOT THIS". Evergreen forest in the background. Black serif text on a white background: "Sometimes you get what you want. Other times, you get a lesson in patience, timing, alignment, empathy, compassion, faith, perseverance, resilience, humility, trust, meaning, awareness, resistance, purpose, clarity, grief, beauty and life. Either way, you win." Credited below: "brianna wiest". White uppercase text on a black background reads: "STOP BREAKING YOURSELF DOWN INTO BITE SIZED PIECES STAY WHOLE AND LET THEM CHOKE" Text on a pale yellow background: "When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of… Photo of a book page titled "A Franciscan Benediction" with red hand-drawn bracket lines in the corners. Text: "May God bless you with discomfort / At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships / So that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger / At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, / So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with… Gray quote graphic. Text: "The narcissist does not love you. You don't even love the narcissist, because the person you fell in love with (or want to love, if the narcissistic personality in your life is a parent, friend or sibling) does not exist. The person you fell in love with was a mask. It was a reflection of what you wanted and what you are. You essentially fell in love with yourself, because the narcissist… A small child in a white unicorn costume with a horn and spines crouches with arms out on a grassy lawn, facing a boy in a yellow Star Trek command uniform who points a toy blue and yellow space blaster at them. Top text: "NEVER LET NORMAL". Bottom text: "INTERFERE WITH AWESOME". Hand-lettered 3x3 chart titled "E-MAIL LIKE A BOSS @danidonovan". Each cell has a blue situation, a red X weak phrase, and a green check stronger phrase. 1: "I took a while but you can deal": X "Sorry for the delay", check "Thanks for your patience". Other cells follow similarly. White text on a black background: "Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain." Attributed to Lori Deschene. A numbered list of eight writing rules in black text on white. 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the… Plain light pink-gray background with centered black text: "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you." Below, the attribution: "L. R. Knost". A large black opening quotation mark above gray bold text: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Below, in black: George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists. A slide with a dark teal background and a small red tab at the top right. White capital letters read: "THERE IS NO "DIGITAL STRATEGY" ANYMORE, JUST STRATEGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD." Black borders surround the slide. Pixel art equation. Small 8-bit Mario, labeled "Person who's a potential customer", plus a Fire Flower, labeled "Your product", equals Fire Mario throwing a fireball, labeled "Awesome person who can do rad shit!" An orange arrow from the text "This isn't what your business sells." points at the flower. A blue arrow from "This is." points at Fire Mario. Footer: "© 2013 UserOnboard.com" Bold black sans-serif text on a white background reads "Fuck it," then a black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration of a sailing ship with billowing sails on waves, then "it." The ship stands in for the word "ship." Photo of an open book page. Heading: "THE SUN NEVER SAYS". Poem: "Even / After / All this time / The sun never says to the earth, / "You owe / Me." / Look / What happens / With a love like that, / It lights the / Whole / Sky." A small star ornament sits above the title. Photo of a yellowed newspaper clipping on a paper towel. It reads: "DEAR ABBY: A long time ago, you had a definition of "maturity" that I kept and liked a lot. I can't find it. Can you dig it up, please? – Mother in Osceola, Ark. Dear Mother: Consider it dug. It was penned by my mother: This is maturity: To be able to stick with a job until it's finished; to do one's duty without being supervised; to be able to… A someecards user card with a vintage illustration of a kneeling man in a hat gesturing at the ground while a woman in a long dress and hat stands with her back to us. Text: "Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren." Logo: someecards, user card. A collage of video game artwork in a grid: a golden angular figure, a dark armored warrior, a figure wreathed in fire and smoke, a hooded assassin's blade, the golden Triforce, a dark armored soldier, and a glowing orange mechanical arm. Top text: "IF VIDEOGAMES HAVE TAUGHT ME ANYTHING". Bottom text: "IT'S THAT IF YOU ENCOUNTER ENEMIES, THEN YOU'RE GOING THE RIGHT WAY." A flowchart on a green background with orange shapes. A large circle at the top reads "IS LIFE GOOD?" Below it, two diamonds read "YES" and "NO". "YES" leads to a circle reading "GOOD". "NO" leads to a circle reading "CHANGE SOMETHING", with an arrow looping back up to the question. Photo of a folded sheet of paper with typewriter-style text: "There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living." White and colored hand-lettered chart on a black background comparing two columns split by a vertical line. Left heading in green: "Good Theft". Right heading in pink: "Bad Theft". A "VS." is circled in the middle. Rows: "Honor" / "Degrade"; "Study" / "Skim"; "Steal from many" / "Steal from one"; "Credit" / "Plagiarize"; "Transform" / "Imitate"; "Remix" / "Rip off". A man with tousled brown hair in a dark pinstriped suit, dark tie and white shirt glances sideways while adjusting his cuffs against a gray backdrop. Black panel text: "Smile, Listen, Agree, and then do whatever the fuck you wanted to do anyway... - Robert Downey Jr." Footer: "NO REGRETS, JUST LOVE ON DAMNLOL.COM". Dark gray poster with a white border and light gray capital letters reading: "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind." Smaller text at the bottom right reads: "-Charles Bukowski". Color-highlighted text attributed to Gary Provost. Text: "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety." Next paragraph: "Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The… Screenshot of a Tumblr post by user 21stgoddamncentury. Text: "If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I'm going to give you some bad advice." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you're not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job." "I'm going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum… Black and white hand-lettered illustration. Inside a white oval wreath of leafy fronds on a scratchy black background, text reads: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." The word "now" is underlined each time. A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." A collectible figurine of Darth Vader in black armor and cape holding a figure in a tan flight suit and white helmet off the ground by the throat. Pink and white script text reads: "Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." Below it: "-Michael P. Watson". Small watermark: "GEEK CLUB".

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