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taylor | 21 |

[seven-winged-liar]

hearing a beloved friend say the words 'can i be mean for a sec' is like watching an angel descend from the heavens and kiss you on the forehead

[theriverbeyond]

i think "turning into a pumpkin" is my new favorite way to articulate the state of things when I am at a function and very overstimulated and it feels like my brain is melting. it's like no i can't be a person anymore i have to leave i'm turning into the pumpkin. the time is up yeah i gotta go. yeah see u later. pumpkin time.

[maxcore]

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

[hygtg]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀all of Taylor Swift’s music videos – part 2 (4)

[preppynewenglandmoms]

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Russian Ark, Alexander Sokurov, 2002

[seinfeldr]

[antisisyphus]

On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie

[paper-fairy]

Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo, 24 June 1880

[inkpressedpetals]

[gloosoli]

Starry Night Over the Rhone, Vincent van Gogh.

[andichoseyou]

the burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into me

and how the blood rushed into my cheeks

so scarlet, it was...

[tolackcolour]

Sigh No More…

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

“This knowledge was kept from us. We did not learn of this [until] like, 24 hours ago, we were pulled in and told about the dropping of it and like, we had no knowledge! No one said, ‘Hey, we might get Taylor Swift.’ Nothing. So this is big stuff. […] It was like hearing Judy Garland sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow the first time.”

— Tom Hanks to ComicBook.com on I Knew It, I Knew You (x)

[unique-ones-enlightened]

[thesylverlining]

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

[quantum-jump]

Or, as my dad put it,

Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?

[paramourblessings]

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

[autisticcaleb]

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on - and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.

The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1945

[herpsandbirds]