compassion & balance

love is the liberator genevieve 18 bay area 🌞🍒🌿💸🌦

[girlmeetsstrong]

[perrfectly]

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

Shana Abé (via perrfectly)

[socio--flower]

Kill yourself

Kill me yourself you fucking pussy

[purplebuddhaproject]

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e.e. cummings (via purplebuddhaproject)

[creamhearts]

why are yall so afraid to double text like ill be out here sending 9 messages in a row buzz buzz another message? its me bitch i just got a lot to say!!

[redwinerozanova]

the opposite of ‘we die like men’ is ‘we survive like women’

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

This is the plot of Fury Road

[barbershop-visuals]

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[angelbabyspice]

the fucking 1 second dance at the end 

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Fresh Off the Boat - “Hi, My Name Is…”

[aj-elloo]

YES

[wumbawoman]

Why Uzo Aduba wouldn’t change her name:

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means “The road is good.” Quick lesson: My tribe is Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

source

They can learn

[whitmanifesto]

I’ve worked with many exchange programs on campuses, and they still “encourage” Chinese students to choose English names for their stay in the US. I’ve adopted a rule for myself, I won’t address them with their English name until they’ve told me to stop trying their real name on at least three different occasions. My family is largely immigrant, and while we’ve never had this problem, I don’t think anyone should have to change who they are when them find a new home, even a temporary one. So far, only two exchange student actually wanted to keep their English name, and one of them, Alice, had had Alice for a nickname since she was little.

[neenorroar-deactivated20181203]

Don’t know if it’s okay to add this here, but I used to work with a Chinese woman who had changed her name to Angelina for the sake of ease. When she first told me that was what she’d had to do, I asked her for her real name and if she minded me calling her that. She looked so frikkin happy, and it only took about two minutes for me to say it right. It’s not that people can’t pronounce these names, it’s that they won’t. It’s lazy and it’s rude.

[tashabilities]

It’s also RACIST.

Say ‘racist’.

They pronounce Tchaikovsky and Schwarzenegger just fine.

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

^THANK YOU. Babies of color,

MAKE THEM SAY YOUR FUCKING NAME. ALWAYS.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

ALL OF THIS

[goodreadss]

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via goodreadss)

[purplebuddhaproject]

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

C. JoyBell C. (via purplebuddhaproject)

[ingelnook]

the world outside my window  @WeHeartIt

[localfag-deactivated20160506]

[stability]

[gloomyfilm]

Everything about this gif is heartbreaking, from Emma and Rupert crying together to the smiling thru the pain. And let’s not forget the hands…THE HANDS GUYS. 

brb crying too. 

[thetattedstoner]

Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare

[aspoonfuloflissi]

[equaticns]

Last minute college stationery hall from muji ✨ How come i had no idea about this muji store in my city??

Studygram: @equaticnss ♡