Gracie's thoughts

• Sometimes it's better to push someone away. Not because you stopped loving them, but because you have to shield yourself from the pain.
• Heal pain with laughter.
• To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
• When you're in a situation in which someone asks something of you, always remember you can say, 'Let me think about that.'
• It's none of your business what other people think of you.
• Stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet. AKA be a Fineapple. 🍍💖
• Don't

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• Everyone you meet has something to teach you.
• People who are too happy don’t see the warning signs of dangerous people or situations and are more willing to trust when they shouldn't.
• Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.
• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
• Overthinking ruins happiness.
• When ‪#‎Virgos‬ truly love, it's pure and selfless. When they

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Love is blind.

And that pretty much nails it!

If you go through this world you will often ask yourself how certain couples ever found each other. Often you will be tempted to give a fast answer like "beauty" or "money", but that's too one-dimensional.

Love is more complex than that and it's bigger than many people can imagine.

The fact of the matter is: Love does not NEED a reason. It comes on its own terms and it exists ...

“The heart wants what the heart wants” is a cliché that couldn't be more accurate. We truly can't help with whom we fall in love. Love doesn't care if someone is older or younger, but we certainly do.

Society holds a negative stigma regarding age differences, which causes people to obsess over it. And, that is why when we start developing feelings for people outside of our age brackets, we think our feelings are wrong.

We often put up walls and flee for the mountains, ...

This is a classic banana bread – moist and full of chocolate chips!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 bananas, mashed (1 cup mashed banana)
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Preparation

• Pre-heat the oven to 350°F .
• Grease and flour a 8 1/2-inch x 4 1/2-inch loaf pan (or use baking spray, such as Baker's Joy brand).
• In a large bowl, whisk

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Do you know how to decipher the ingredients label on your moisturiser? Or whether you should be using retinol? Or what the difference is between AHAs and BHA? Relax and let the Vogue Skincare Alphabet break it down.

What are they?
AHAs are alpha hydroxy acids - a class of chemical compounds that can be either naturally occurring or synthetic. Many are derived from organic sugars, with glycolic acid (from sugar cane) and lactic acid (from milk) the best-known and best-researched ...

Social media, that most absorbing of time-fillers that's only ever a swipe away, has come to dominate how we communicate - and for some more than others. Here, after an honest, but anonymous, poll in the Vogue office, we break down the varying breeds of users out there - from overzealous hashtaggers and oversharers, to those that opt out entirely.

The Lurkers
These are users that never comment, never “like”, never post and never admit to your face that they’ve checked out ...