[alrobertsphotography]

The Plym North Wood Dartmoor

[existennialmemes]

Two seemingly contradictory beliefs that we actually must strive to hold simultaneously:

You don't owe anyone anything

Meaning: you do not have to make yourself suffer for the convenience of others

We owe each other everything

Meaning: we could not survive without each other and everything we do to help another is crucial to ensuring our own continued survival

You don't need to be a doormat, but also don't get comfortable slamming the door when you have the resources to extend a hand instead.

[artist-monet]

Weeping Willow, 1919, Claude Monet

[04k96]

[anitanh]

[weltenwellen]

“We only become what we are through the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre in his introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 1963, p. 17).  

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[reverie-quotes]

A woman must stay alone for a long while until the hate men have for women has left her, and even longer until the jealousy women have for other women has left her, and longer still until the anger her children have for her has left her—until she is no longer a woman altered by the resentment of men, women, and children, no longer what others have forced her to be, but empty as a skull or a shell, filled only by whatever she pleases, forest air perhaps.

— Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

[carmen-photography]

Rain, Snow and Rainbows - Senja, Norway 2026

[velvetnightgallery]

christian dior spring 1998 couture // designed by john galliano

[stellarskull]

THE BEAR — 1.02

[weepingwidar]

Tuan Vu (Vietnamese, 1971) - On the Bridge (2024)

[urgetocreate]

Oil and oil sticks on linen, 36 in × 30 in

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[utopians]

Oh shittttt I forgot this was my one wild and precious life

[bluewillowmoon]

“The more there is evil in the world, the more we have reasons to create beauty. It is doubtless harder, but it is also more necessary.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky, from “Portrait of a Filmmaker as a Monk-Poet,” an interview with Laurence Cossé, Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)

[screamingwaifu]

[amandla]