Miracle is another word for hard work

tryna be that polygot: Arabic (native) | french | english| spanish | korean ⇨ English literature and civilization student. 20 y.o and aiming for a change. I have dreams and I will make them come true. {posts original content occasionally} ig: myacademicpath

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language? scratch that. why did I choose to seek refuge in a language of another instead of training my tongue to bear the heaviness of my own?

[philosophybits]

“What person who analyses things thoroughly would take delight in a form which, as has been demonstrated, is like a dream? And since the body, as demonstrated, does not exist, then what woman or what man is there?”

— Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (9:87)

[cocomonerd]

No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.

[enonem]

And it is also not "now that you have proven yourself to be less of an asshole I will give you the second chance you deserve." It's "you were rude to me once, so I was very ready to believe the worst about you. But now you're opening up and I realise that, while you definitely have flaws that you need to work on, they are different and less fundamental flaws than what I thought. So I'm going to sit back and reassess on what I actually see and not just what confirms my preexisting bias. And in doing so I realise that at your core you are a very good person."

[illustration-alcove]

The Sleeping Beauty, variously adapted by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Illustrations by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev.

[oldshrewsburyian]

As we all suffer more with each new revelation about the Netflix “Persuasion,” I want you all to know, fellow-sufferers, that I am spiritually including you in the consolations of the fresh pot of English Breakfast I’ve just made.

[mentalquotes]

“Don’t be so cool you can’t cry. Don’t be so smart you can’t wonder. Don’t be so set on your sunny days that you can’t love thunder.”

— Unknown

[johnwatsonsmonsterdong-blog]

From ‘Break-up Texts: Paintings’ & ‘It’s Not You’ by Allison Wade [via Taxi]

[nightlyquotes]

“Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.”

— Unknown

[theocseason4]

this show gets too real sometimes

[freelance-philosopher]

“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[nightlyquotes]

“I think if what you’d do for your last day on Earth doesn’t look like a pretty normal day for you, you probably need to reexamine your life.”

— Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

[tlirsgender]

Not gonna lie I think the pandemic has had some effects on me

[greetingsfromthewreck]

Who else is (re) reading Persuasion?

[happyheidi]

‘Opawlia’ by Susan Herbert (1945 - 2004)

[boethiah]

no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

[dark-romantics]

I was never really insane except on occasions where my heart was touched.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

[mentalquotes]

“Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.”

— Rae Earl