[cloudyyyy6]

[kiwilikethefruittt]

you can be scared, overwhelmed, and uncertain but still be capable of doing it anyway

[gouged-doll]

erich fromm, the art of loving

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time

[aletheyass]

it’s insane to me that some women think taking their husbands surname is romantic like i’m not changing my name that’s my name it’s literally a crazy concept to me to legally change a name for a man like girl that’s witness protection stuff wdym you’re just changing your name???? one day just like that? all the paperwork and for what?? it’s sooooo stupid as well as regressive. sorry

[loveletters2myself]

death to nonchalance. romanticise your existence to an unreasonable degree. be gloriously delusional about how good it can get. inconvenience yourself for the sake of love. gush about your passions. get obsessed. get invested. be a fool for the right things. adore your people with your whole chest. devote yourself to something far greater than yourself. get dolled up for the most mundane activities imaginable. smile with your teeth. giggle shamelessly. kiss longer & slower. have a signature everything. accumulate hilarious stories. love so hard it rewires others’ beliefs about love. be someone God clearly had fun making. let people know they made your day. make someone’s day. take spontaneity seriously. send five voice notes in a row, because why wouldn’t you? leave people better than you found them. be so infatuated with your babies faces you take approximately 400 photos of them a day. gush. just gush!!

[junglejim4322]

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

sometimes I whisper this sufjan stevens’ instagram caption to myself like a prayer

[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, from "The Fury of Sundays" in The Complete Poems

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[suispiria]

lately I’ve been Overcome With Emotion

[laterkiss]

everytime i want something i should be shot in the head

[filmnoirsbian]

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

[2colde]

i experience every monday so garfield doesn’t have to

[oncce-againn]

with your whole heart or don't bother

[weltenwellen]

Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

[louisegluck]

Mary Oliver, from “Moments.” [ID in alt text]