Take Your Time.

Angie. 24. Somewhere in Seattle. 'Those seconds were ones I wanted to keep, and it's silly that my heart stopped.'

[nicostiel]

And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

[writershigh]

Me thinking of you has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with my inability to let the painful things go.

Peyton Scott, Let It Go (via writershigh)

[best-life-wisdom]

I no longer force things. what flows flows, what crashes, crashes. I only have space and energy for things that are meant for me.

[fyp-psychology]

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us—a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain—it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It’s made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. Sometimes we care for another because we know we should, or because it’s asked for, but this doesn’t make our caring hollow. The act of choosing simply means we’ve committed ourselves to a set of behaviors greater than the sum of our individual inclinations: I will listen to his sadness, even when I’m deep in my own. To say “going through the motions”—this isn’t reduction so much as acknowledgment of the effort—the labor, the motions, the dance—of getting inside another person’s state of heart or mind. This confession of effort chafes against the notion that empathy should always arise unbidden, that genuine means the same thing as unwilled, that intentionality is the enemy of love. But I believe in intention and I believe in work. I believe in waking up in the middle of the night and packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones.

Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams (via fyp-psychology)

[kataflush]

[library-mermaid-blog]

[kushandwizdom]

"Be with someone who wants to invest in you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions and falls in love with you daily."

- Unknown

[macleod]

Flying a drone through fireworks

[losangelesrams-deactivated20170]

I really don’t think anything exists man

[cuzyouwanttotakemypicture-deact]

Live: Anti Trump Protests Outside JFK Airport After Refugees Detained at…

[lord-kitschener]

“Tell me what America looks like?” “This is what America looks like.”

[fyp-psychology]

People act according to the way they experience the world. If you can understand their experience, you can understand their behavior.

R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (via fyp-psychology)

[onlytwitterpics]

[rainfromheaven]

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Carrie Fisher on pursuing dreams despite mental illness [X] (via spurlunk)

[atmeal012]

[queengreendown]

It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

[refinery29]

This judge had exactly the right reaction to the shameful way nonviolent prisoners are treated in US jails

A woman was denied pants or tampons after being arrested for not completing a diversion course that was part of her sentencing from a shoplifting charge. But see how the judge reacts when she finds out that the prisoner’s humiliating treatment is apparently routine.

Gifs: Raw Leak

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[thelovejournals]

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever (via fyp-psychology)

[thequotejournals]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (via wordsnquotes)