[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[northstargrassmaiden]

i love crocheting!!!!

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“We cannot shame ourselves into change. We can only love ourselves into evolution.”

— M. Eayre

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[femmefatalevibe]

Your life is meant to be a series of essays, not an epic. Embrace the unique pleasures, highlights, emotions, relationships, and accomplishments associated with every new stage. Lean into the chaos, imperfections, indulgences, and idiosyncrasies that come with every defining era, decade, or milestone. No life worth living is linear.

[luthienne]

... language itself seduced her. She fluttered with the knowledge that certain words in a certain order could rearrange her on the inside, like moving furniture. Words changed and remade her constantly, and no one else could even sense a difference.

— Juhea Kim, from Beasts of a Little Land

[rabbitsoverload]

Sable shaking after a nap

[fidnru]

“You have more control over your appearance online that you do in the real world. You can cull the best photo from hundreds taken. You can choose lighting and poses designed to flatter. You can filter. You can Photoshop. But the more you see a version of yourself that doesn’t really exist, the more foreign the woman in the mirror will feel to you, and the less satisfied you’ll become with her. Because now you aren’t simply comparing yourself to models, or peers. You’re engaging in a particularly devastating form of comparison: your real self versus your created self.”

— Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, Renee Engeln 

[elorablue]

Fisherman & Cats by zoonabar on Flickr.

[deeptalkwiths-deactivated202603]

Sis, you‘re somebodys prayer. You better not beg for love.

[bb-e3rie]

if you’re famous in your imagination, you’re famous period. if you’re the most beautiful person ever in your imagination, you’re the most beautiful person ever period. if you’re rich in your imagination, you’re rich period. why? because your inner self (who you are in imagination) is your true self. stop identifying with the outer world, stop being enslaved by the world of the senses, and start identifying yourself with your inner self. who you are in imagination will project itself unto the outer world so why identify with the outer world if it’s just a projection of your inner world?

[perfectquote]

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

[sk-lumen]

It is possible to simulaneously embrace & accept yourself as enough here and now & celebrate all your accomplishments so far, while also being open to more growth and fulfillment in the future. You are enough, and you can keep growing. The two aren't mutually exclusive unless you believe them to be.

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism is all about scarcity. Then exploiting the scarcity. Then creating more scarcity.

[aidashakur]

[rubiesandhoney]

[bbyyygirl]