[leahweberking]

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you’ll find that you have more of it.” Ralph Morston

[mothprincess]

Mary Oliver, from The Journey

[petalsinfall]

2026<3

[dreamsinthyme]

“My copper kettle whistles merrily And signals that it is time for tea. The fine china cups are filled with the brew. There’s lemon and sugar and sweet cream, too. But, best of all there’s friendship, between you and me. As we lovingly share our afternoon tea.”

– Marianna Arolin

[alicelittleworld]

“One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: ‘When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.’ (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that phrase.) He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went on, ‘Nothing means as much without that person.’ One of the men in the class repeated, incredulous, half-laughing, ‘So you’re saying you can’t enjoy, like, a vacation, without someone if you’re really in love with them?’ ‘Of course not,’ the professor replied. ‘Not completely. You recognize beauty, but beauty means less if they don’t witness it with you. Beauty is less. You see something sublime and your first thought is that they should be there with you. It’s not as good without them. They illuminate. They make everything more.’”

— (via skeletales)

[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[thoughtkick]

“Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you’re going to respond to life.”

— Wess Stafford

[inkpressedpetals]

[scorpionlafemme]

[lamusebrune]

It gets better. You find better. You experience better. You become better.

[kmwords]

“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”

— Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

[farmgf]

Linda Pastan, The Months

[poeticpicturism]

[lilacmuse]

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the time of Cholera 

[thevisualvamp]

Inner library

[quietlotus]

“The grace of acceptance makes equal gifts of fruits both sour and sweet.”

— Quiet Lotus

[officialife4christ]

"The more that God’s Word is removed from our lives, the more inhibited our spiritual progress becomes. Nothing else can do the work that the truth does. There is no sanctifying power in human wisdom, intuition, insight, or experience. It is only in the Word of God. Only the truth revealed in Scripture sanctifies – sound teaching accurately interpreted, understood, and applied. As divine revelation is embraced, spiritual progress is made. There are no alternative routes to godly character and holy living." — John MacArthur

[thesophistiicate]

most people rush. most people fill space with noise. most people react rather than choose. when you move with intention—when you pause, when you observe, when you take your time—you change the entire rhythm of how the world interacts with you. power isn’t always loud. sometimes, it’s stillness.