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Gretson love quotes 🍑

“There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.”

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david attenborough: [to dramatic orchestral score] this is the biggest north-facing sandstone incline in the World… and there is a very special Bug who lives here

me: wow

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enjoy your slumber king

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The original Eartha Kitt recording of Santa Baby is the only good version because she’s the only one that puts any kind of irony or humour into it. She understands that the song is about a gold-digger singing to her sugar daddy, telling him about all the gifts she wants and buttering him up by telling him how “good” she’s been to him. And flirtatiously comparing him to Santa because he’s an old man who gives her gifts when she sits on his lap. Every other singer does the song as though they’re actually trying to fuck Santa.

historieofbeafts

I know I make fun of Pliny the Elder a lot, but I genuinely can’t stop thinking about this approach to taxonomy:

[There is a fish called the tursio, which bears a strong resemblance to the dolphin; it differs from it, however, in a certain air of sadness, and is wanting in its peculiar vivacity.]

Like, imagine someone describing an animal to you, but the only information they’ll provide is that it’s sort of like another animal, but much much sadder.

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okay so apparently the word “Tursio” is what people in Pliny’s time called the porpoise. for reference, here is a dolphin:

and here is a porpoise:

anyways long story short Pliny was entirely correct stop bullying him

sixthrock

“you ruined a perfectly good dolphin is what you did. look at it, it’s got depression” - Pliny, apparently

felinetay

it’s so wild to me that heterosexual people can talk about their first crushes when they were in elementary school and how they had their first awkward kiss at really young ages or they would chase boys on the playground to try and kiss them and that’s all fine and normal and cute but no one considers the fact that lgbt people experience this too like….i had elementary school-aged crushes on my girl friends and spent hours talking to them on the phone every day after school with butterflies in my stomach and together we daydreamed about throwing extravagant parties together and being movie stars or high-fashion models or pop stars or writers and together we held hands on the playground and kissed behind the trees in my backyard…the innocence of a childhood crush does not only exist for straight people….please stop seeing homosexuality as inherently sexual because when you do that, you are erasing all of the girls whose braids i memorized like a pattern and whose faces i can’t recall but still have love for and their stories deserve to be told and remembered and passed down like folk songs

rainbowkarolina

KRISTEN STEWART & AUBREY PLAZA in HAPPIEST SEASON

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No matter how many times you fail to meet your own expectations, you have to forgive yourself. Despite contrary belief, dwelling on and badgering yourself over your faults doesn’t ever help you grow into who you want to be.

It’s like gardening: if your flower isn’t blossoming like you want it to, you don’t rip out its leaves as punishment for failing to satisfy you. You recognize the problem and figure out what’s going wrong with its environment so you can modify it, giving the flower a chance to bloom in its own time.

Accept your shortcoming or setback, forgive yourself, and figure out what’s going wrong so that you can plan for how to prevent it from repeating in the future. Thank your past self for trying in the first place and then give your future self the love needed to flourish.

naamahdarling

I am almost affronted at how good and forgiving this advice is.

Flawless positivity.

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Listen.

I read once, don’t remembet where or know if it’s true, that in order to train an animal and to remain good friends with it, you need a 5/1 ratio of positive vs. negative interactions. So for every interaction that the animal considers negative - pilling a cat, for example - you need FIVE positive interactions, such as treats, cuddles, play, or praise if you want to remain on the best possible terms with it.

This applies to your relationship with yourself.

If you aren’t positively interacting with yourself but are instead consistently berating, punishing, or being disgusted with yourself, you are 100% going to have a lot of emotional pain.

You aren’t perfect. Nobody is and nobody should feel like they have to be. You will make mistakes. And contrary to what a lot of folks, self included, seem to believe, being mean to yourself because you think you “deserve” it won’t actually help you learn or becone a better person.

All it does is teach you not to trust yourself, and teach you that you will always disappoint yourself. You take on a toxic relationship with yourself where you play both parts. It’s terrible.

So yes, you HAVE to learn to forgive yourself. You actually cannot grow effectively in the confines of a toxic relationship. Including one you have with yourself.

I know it isn’t easy, I have a hard time too, but it is so, so necessary.

jadelyn

You can’t hate yourself into being happy.

I don’t remember where I read this but it literally changed my life and how I approach growth and personal development. It can be hard to keep in mind sometimes, but it puts it in a way that’s hard to argue with.

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Cat, who plays Boblem on @nyxrising ‘s Life of the Party D&D show put this beautifully into words, and I cry each time I read these words:

“You know, people are kinda like trees, kinda like a plant. So here’s how I see it: when a plant is not really growing, or if it’s decaying, you don’t get angry at the plant and go ‘why don’t you grow?!’ You try to feed it back into health, you know? And I think it’s the same with people. Instead of getting angry at yourself for things you might not like about you, you should try to nourish yourself. Back into health. Does that make sense?”