Indeed.

Don't bother with reading things. It only makes you think. Thinking is silly.

[larmoyante]

Staying here, blaming them, and forever defining your life by what they did will only increase the pain. Worse, it will keep projecting out onto others. The more our pain consumes us, the more it will control us. And sadly, it’s those who least deserve to be hurt whom our unresolved pain will hurt the most.

Lysa TerKeurst, Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

[larmoyante]

You came into my life and made everything else feel like a rehearsal. Love always came to me as a question, but with you, it felt like an answer. I didn't know I had put up walls until you brought them crashing down. I couldn't figure out why love was different with you until I realized it hadn't been love with anyone else.

Lang Leav, With Anyone Else

[lickmychopstick]

You leaned in close. Whispered gently, "you're it for me."

[saying]

“I believe we expect too much from a single person who barely know themselves.”

— 6:29am  (via danger)

[lickmychopstick]

Thank you for choosing me when I couldn't choose myself

[lickmychopstick]

When the universe gives you a glimmer of hope during your darkest days

It's a reminder to humble yourself

[lickmychopstick]

If I am quiet it does not mean they get to write my silence with their stories.

When they mistake kindness for weakness or silence for ignorance.

We are all humans coping with the messiness of a life that moves far too fast.

They do not get to judge how I decide to grasp onto hope.

They do not get to tell me how to be human when I'm hurting.

They do not get to tell me how to love,

how to fall,

Or how to fly.

[lickmychopstick]

And then I opened my heart

A bit too late perhaps

And as is life.

Whenever you get comfortable

It takes you on another ride.

[untamedunwanted]

“Here you are, so full of goodness and the arms you crave do not hold you, and you blame yourself, you think you it is because you aren’t enough. Stop. This isn’t true. You see, the truth is you are so enough and so good that not everyone was built to deserve you. Not everyone has the capacity to understand the magnitude of your enough.”

— Nikita Gill

[quotemadness]

“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[lickmychopstick]

I experienced such a beautiful thing today. Took pictures at the park of a guy (that I like) with his almost 3 year old daughter who was incredibly well behaved, respectful and cheerful. I feel like that’s an understatement. I haven’t experienced being around a child like this.

He and the mother split up when she was 1. But you can feel the love of both parents. And when I tell him how lucky he is to have such a great daughter he credits it to the mother. And there’s just so much respect and admiration for eachother whilst raising a daughter in separate states. Most precious thing I’ve witnessed in so long. Seeing a reflection of their relationship just through her personality alone. Feeling the the influence of her mother as well. And it was one of those moments that restored my faith in humanity. Parents don’t have to stay together for the kids. It’s more important for a child to feel loved and be in the presence of that love on a regular basis. You can tell her parents have patience. She doesn’t grab things that aren’t hers. She respects people and isn’t shy or fearful of strangers. She’s brave and independent, which is a sign her parents give her freedom to explore whilst providing safety to come back to. These are things I’m honestly inspired by. I’ve always been interested in child development. How can we better our parenting skills as a society?

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

the sad thing is, everyone thinks they’re so forgettable, or they don’t mean anything to anyone. but you don’t see your high school friend, smiling to themselves, when they think about your quirks or how dramatic you used to be whenever you got a crush. you don’t see the person who saw you around a lot but was always too shy to talk to you. you don’t remember the person you helped, and maybe you didn’t do much for them, but you didn’t know that they were having a shitty month and you sparked their first real smile in weeks. you don’t see the person that secretly loved you too, who never forgot the soft words that you said, or the way you smiled whenever you saw them, or how you reminded them of sunshine and flowers; and how the thought of you pops into their mind more than you will ever know and in the randomest of places. you will never know that a soft song or strawberries or a sunset will remind someone of you. they will go to the beach and think of you for some reason, until they remember that the last time they saw a color as beautiful and as profound as the ocean was when they looked in your eyes. no one knows their impact on people, or their worth. no one thinks they will be missed when they leave, but they don’t know that once you go into someone’s life, even for a fleeting moment, you stay forever, and you take up a soft place that no one else could ever replace.

[untamedunwanted]

“If he chooses not to hold you, remind yourself you do not need his arms. Not when you have two of your own. Hold yourself, girl. Remind yourself that the love you have to give is more nurturing than he can ever give you, and you deserve that love, a far more wholesome love than his.”

— Nikita Gill

[illmaticraj]

One of the most beautiful commercials I have ever seen. Good on you, Amazon Prime. 

[learningtoembracemymadness]

Also just saying the music in the background is the piece “i giorni” by Ludovico Einaudi and it’s the most perfectly beautiful piece for this advertisement.

[loveyoumore9497-deactivated2021]

I still cry and I think I’ve watched it 200times now. I can’t

[makira-makira]

Everytime i watch it i start to love it even more

[segadreamcatcher]

this legitimately gave me chills 

[revysprite-deactivated20170502]

This is so cute

[listentothestories]

[gorabaa]

A handwritten note, scrawled in Arabic on a torn cigarette pack, was discovered on the ground last week in Pozzallo as migrants filed off a ship. It was from someone initialed “A” to someone else initialed “R.”

“I wanted to be with you,” read the note. “Don’t you dare forget me. I love you very much. My wish is for you not to forget me. Be well my love. A loves R. I love you.”

كلمات عربية مكتوبة بخط اليد على غلاف علبة سجائر ممزقة عُثر عليها بعد إنقاذ مركب لمهاجريين غير شرعيين لإيطاليا من أ لـ ر The New York Times | T.B : Lynsey Addario 

[lickmychopstick]

It’s great when a person or significant other compliments my body. And it’s important for a partner to make the effort to point out those things. That being said, it’s just as important to realize it is also our job to stop complaining about our bodies. I know the people close to me are shaking their heads since all I do is critique my body. It’s hard, but we all have to take responsibility in the process of self love.