MANDY's search for meaning

I enjoy the prolific nature of Tumblr. I don't really have a theme, but I have repetitions of love and beauty through different forms of light, people, landscapes, wonders and words. I blog very rarely yet reblog about nonstop.

[appleandserpent]

If we don’t heal our wounds, we’ll bleed on the people that did not hurt us. Confront your trauma, forgive and set yourself free.

Apple & Serpent (via appleandserpent)

[thecalminside]

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,

but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but

for the heart to conquer it.”

Rabindranath Tagore

[gemmarambles]

Well, you’ll break his heart and he’ll break yours. But you won’t forget each other, even if one day you walk past him and neither of you acknowledges it. That’s the thing about first loves, you never forget them, they are the only person who gets your whole untouched heart. They get all the love you’ve saved up for this moment and they get to keep it forever. You may never speak again but you can guarantee that you can still picture his eyes looking into yours as he said those three words, the way he kissed you afterwards and couldn’t stop repeating those words over and over until you were both too tired to speak. However you’ll also always remember the last time he said those three words, and told you that he was going to come back for you, the way he made you believe that a happy ending did exist for both of you. Those memories will come back to you in waves, all the firsts and all the lasts, the good and the bad, but what’s important is the fact that your first love is just that, the first but not the last.

from me to you (via gemmarambles)

[purplebuddhaproject]

https://www.instagram.com/pbuddhaproject/

[words-of-emotion]

The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best but still loves & accepts you at your worst.

(via words-of-emotion)

Good Vibes here

(via words-of-emotion)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

[abiding-in-peace]

Whatever you might think in different moments, anger is never your friend and fear is never your support. Make love the foundation of your life and share the most beautiful part of you with the world.

Michael Kewley 

May all beings be happy.

(via abiding-in-peace)

[poemes-pour-lui-deactivated2018]

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

― Sunshine Cleaning (2008) Rose: There’s not a lot that I’m good at. I’m good at getting guys to want me. Not date me or marry me, but want me.

[b0yblues]

I just need someone who won’t give up when loving me gets hard.

I know you can forgive but I hope you can forget (via de-payse)

[primordialsoundmeditation]

When you play the What-If? game, look for things that make you feel better. There is never a situation in which there is not a way out—but, out of habit, most people continue to choose the “lack” perspective until they eventually find themselves where it seems that there are no more choices. But as you hold to your intention to look for evidence of Well-Being and thriving and success and happiness, you will tune yourself to the vibrations of those things—and so those kinds of good-feeling experiences will dominate your life. —Abraham

(via primordialsoundmeditation)

[rubyetc]

I found these gifs I made a while back for a site that’s not running anymore, so I thought I’d post them here. It’s a description of psychiatric symptoms and states of mind using a pink box and some other stuff. 

[apriljanee5]

These are so accurate

[psych2go]

Interesting! Just thought I’d share! 

[wordsthat-speak]

Just for future reference, don’t use words like “love” anymore. It’s a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it’s a currency that’s easily devalued. Pretty soon you’re saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it’s an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don’t hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means—more. More, more—give me something more. A couple of years from now, when you’re on your own completely, if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that—and I pity you if it does—you have to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to drown in it, Kevin. You’d have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that’s what real love feels like—choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave. That’s why the second most abused word is “forever”.”

Hot Plastic (Peter Craig)

[unpoeticlines]

[chillydaze]

Poets of the 90s✊🏽

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill (via purplebuddhaproject)