Angeline

[themarchingbeetle]

[penofabeliever]

سبحان الله !

How beautiful!

Love magnolias!

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

[recked]

[bnmxfld]

Love isn’t something you have to deserve.

Jennifer Echols / Such a Rush

[jnjo]

Joseph Tomanek, Nymphs Dancing to Pan’s Flute 1920

[shisasan]

It seems to me that I only begin to live after the sun has gone down and the stars have come out.

September 18, 1925 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

[ur-older-brother-official]

I just folded and put away the clothes that have been sitting in a lump on my chair for the past three days at 8:30 at night.

It's never too late.

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

- Eleanor Brownn

I love this quote by Eleanor Brownn. It doesn’t ask for any heroics. It just gently reminds me that I’m allowed to protect myself, however that looks.

Her writing gives quiet permission to rest and to heal – and stop burning ourselves up just to make others comfortable.

Not sure about you but I need to be reminded of this much more often than I'd care to admit. 💓💘💙

[cansu-m]

[vexheart]

[detailedart]

Van Gogh, nights and blues.

[sunflorally]

center your life around your own desires. don’t listen to people who try to tell you what they think you should be, what they think you should do, what they think you should spend money, or time, or effort on. you won’t ever feel complete if you chase other people’s dreams, or subscribe to other people’s expectations. live for you

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[doggosource]

[hatin]

via wehearit

[bnmxfld]

Love isn’t something you have to deserve.

Jennifer Echols / Such a Rush

[cansu-m]