heaven in a wild flower

Dreamer. Wanderer.

[godsperfectwomanforreal]

I’ve always wanted to go to a house party like you see in movies but I never found out about any. Was too busy in the monastery where I was trained to kill

[icyhotacedragon]

[kafk-a]

"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It's a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I'll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it's the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws. Cultivating these feelings of love or appreciation for random people, and even for people I don't like, makes me a more forgiving and appreciative person toward myself and people I love. Also, it's just a really excellent pastime."

— Dean Spade, from his essay For Lovers and Fighters

[perfectquote]

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe (via perfectquote)

[stay-close]

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

[perfectquote]

“I will never be enough for you, until I search inside and find the way, to be enough for me.”

— William Chapman

[nightlyquotes]

“If things go wrong don’t go with them.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

— Mitch Albom

[quotemadness]

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

[nightlyquotes]

“Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you’re not anymore.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

[quotemadness]

“Right now I feel absolutely nothing, and I’m not sure what scares me more. The feeling of emptiness or how incredibly intoxicating it is.”

— Michelle Finn

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“You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.”

—

G. I. Gurdjieff

(via michaelbogild)

[kosmogrl]

If only I did everything I plan on doing I'd be unstoppable

[thehopefulquotes]

“You can never completely know anyone, no matter how well you think you do. There will always be some truth about them you don’t ever get to know.”

— Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

[nietp]

Worse, thanks to what is called “shifting baseline syndrome,” changes that initially seem extreme come to be accepted as normal over time. The next generation of children, who will never remember how many birds (or butterflies or hedgehogs or manatees) once existed in the wild, will not hear anything eerie in the silence. Once a mass murder is complete, its victims tell no tales. When humans killed the last of the giant “Steller sea cows” several hundred years ago, the memory of these mega-manatees faded away quickly, and now they seem like something fantastical. We know that “in just over 100 years the world lost as much forest as it had in the previous 9,000 years,” but when nobody is left alive who remembers the old forests, the loss is not felt.

Nathan J. Robinson, Obliterating the Natural World

[stay-close]

“Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them.”

— Unknown

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