[onlinecounsellingcollege]

"Love me when I least deserve it, for that's when I really need it." - Swedish Proverb

[loveforallbears]

Photo by Niko Pekonen

[sacred-portal]

[sacred-portal]

[noahverrier]

My oil painting of an Uncrustable

[thesophistiicate]

if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.

[verodoodles]

This cozy little mushroom pal is one of four stickers coming to my shop next week! 🍄🌈✨

[petalsinfall]

[sorrrowfull]

[pikachewww]

apologies to anyone who ever thought i was cool and reached out to me only to discover i am just a weird little hermit who can't carry on a conversation to save my life

[thesophistiicate]

btw curating a beautiful environment is about honouring yourself. when you choose to surround yourself with things that are well-made, thoughtfully designed, and meaningful, you affirm that your daily experience matters. investing in quality over convenience sends a subconscious message of self-worth that is completely foundational to building a better life.

[nachttraeumerei]

every day is a struggle between the self that is consumed by the cruelty of the world and the self that recognizes the beauty in it

[anxeious]

via pitkeeper on ig

[explicitlyrics]

stained glass snoopy at redwood empire ice arena, 2007.

[heateron]

[thereignclub-trc]

Life is right now. While you’re waiting for your dream job, your future spouse, your goal weight, a new home, a change in appearance. Life is happening while you are working on mastering a skill, being in the unknown, not knowing which way to go, feeling stuck. Most of life happens in the waiting. Not in the achievements or successes which are nothing but milestones. Don’t wish the time you have away waiting for something that lives in the future. Look around. What does today offer that you might not want to miss?

[jmfenner91]

Inktober Day 28 - Jumbo