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You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

Azar Nafisi (via quotemadness)

witchbum

i’d like to formally call myself out on being such a needy and emotionally confusing person

kalesbug

1000drawings

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

the-future-now-deactivated20170

Watch: Bill Nye uses science to defend women’s reproductive rights

Follow @the-future-now

booksandpublishing

scaghunterroop

“This is a very sobering estimate.“

~ Bringing Fossils to Life, by Donald Prothero

braunstrowman

“Get them away.”

(with the italics and everything)

maskee

“It’s not for me, and I want you to put something in it. Hidden.”

cctvfootage2019

“Ah”

1neffablefeelings

X^3•X^17=e

gnarledteeth-deactivated2018060

“this book… this Codex he was looking for…”

coffeeyearning-blog

From Advocacy and Opposition, I got, “First, the proposition should be phrased as a clear statement of the change in belief or behavior the advocate seeks.”

It’s not bad. Like a how to guide.

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

“He swung his scimitar.”

lucyaudley

One day, seven years ago (he told me he had been a student for seven years) he came very pompously into this reading room.

ehonauta

The Duke did not give her the necessary help.

gin-and-disappointment

“I guess I thought that was a secret.”

redjeep

Zeus. (from Hesiod’s Theogony)

charming2thelast

“You’re not expected to love everything”

fit4forty-deactivated20160102

“Totally incomplete proteins are incapable of replacing or building new tissue, and hence cannot support life, let alone promote growth”

tatmanblue

“Adventures are extraordinary people, driven by a thirst for excitement”

Ha-ha. Yeah right. I’m like coach/counselor for learning to say no.

some1thatyouusetoknow

She turned and started toward the door. “I have to get home and pack my things. Since it’s obvious I’ll be moving out.”

acutelesbian

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

fat-thin-skinny

this fucks me up every single time

acutelesbian

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

conceitedtrash

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

acutelesbian

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

fat-thin-skinny

this fucks me up every single time

acutelesbian

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

conceitedtrash

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

daringtome

Please be careful with me. Sometimes I just get sad and I don’t know why. I’m sorry.

(via danger)

weird5cience

weltenwellen

Good intentions don’t excuse bad behavior. You will always enjoy yourself less when you have planned for it. Grief has no solution. Let it be. Not forgiving someone destroys you more than it destroys them. Sometimes there are no amount of encouraging words to pull someone out of the sheer exhaustion and melancholy of being alive. People see you the most when you don’t want to be seen at all. Honest laughs must be drawn out until all the air is gone. Like a balloon. Panic attacks exist to make you think your life is wrong. It is nearly impossible to maintain a close friendship when one person is depressed and the other is not. Not really knowing someone is what makes a life look interesting. Like when the movie trailer is better than the movie. If you need them to care more than they do, it won’t happen. Ever. Learning to dance in public without pretense is incredibly liberating, and people will envy you for it. There is a spiritual war raging inside all of us. Deciding to do something different just because you know it’s different does not make you unique. Unique is liking what you like. Unique is shamelessly admitting how much you still love that band even after they’ve sold out. Being alone is powerful. People don’t praise others because they’re afraid there will be no glory left for them. Nostalgia is the art of abandoning details. You’re never fooling anyone nearly as much as you’re fooling yourself. Small talk is THE WORST. No one hates the prettiest person in the room more than the 2nd prettiest person in the room. Regrets are useful, not useless. Dwelling is useless. Humbling yourself is the biggest component of self-improvement. It’s easier to get in your own way than it is for anyone else to. Kindness is the fastest way to earn respect. Depression is a lack of willingness. Opposites attract because they have so much to learn from each other. If you have to test their love, you’re not worthy. Half-hearted encouragement is worse than no encouragement at all. If a woman is constantly being let down by a man, it’s because she doesn’t know how powerful it is to be a woman. Nothing could be more bittersweet than knowing that it’s not going to play out the way you envision it. Helping people is the most rewarding thing on the planet and the least practiced. If you had everything figured out about anything, you wouldn’t be here. The more you don’t wear makeup, the better you look without it. Love is not rare. Unconditional love is. You’re the only one who thinks your family is embarrassing. Getting rid of one vice means replacing it with another. It’s all in your head. Literally.

Amy Shock (via splitterherzen)