Truism & Altruism

I'm all about concept.

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Linda Gregg

[theotreptos]

dulce maria loynaz

[adailymirror]

“But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?”

— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (via wordsnquotes)

[adailymirror]

“I don’t know who I am when I am not trembling.”

— Darshana Suresh, from “Haunted House Hearts,”Howling at the Moon (via lifeinpoetry)

[adailymirror]

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”

— Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish” in Dream Work (via i-was-born-backwards)

[a-thousand-words]

I think this will alway be my favorite postsecret.

[lovebalm]

god im reading a text about romance fiction (especially targeted at young adults) for class and one sentence in it literally made my brain explode because ive been thinking about this kind of stuff too, how “Many people wouldn’t fall in love if they’ve never heard about it before.” and like…imagine there was no ideal/overaccentuated image of love and romance painted in postmodern mass media….how would we love? would it be purer? more authentic? what would we do differently? would we fall in love at all if we werent constantly being fed an ideal concept of love as the norm in mass media? like what is a natural process of human feelings and what is just a projection of how we want to love and want to be loved based on what we’ve seen on tv and read in books etc? in this essay i will

[rabbitrah]

w … wh … where’s the rest of the essay, op? 

[northeastern-eldritchaesthetic]

A collection of northeastern photography from  Charlotte Strode’s album mediums

[niceaf]

[book-caps]

Beau Taplin, The Wild Heart 

art by night-rooms

[hot-cider-hollow]

“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the ocean.”

— Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales (via wordsnquotes)

[expressions-of-nature]

Iceland by Patrick Wittke

[cidham]

[driflloon]

looking glasses: dilone for allure us jan. 2018

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[purplebuddhaproject]

“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”

— Jennifer Echols  (via purplebuddhaquotes)