[themirrorsmanifesto]

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”

— Paulo Coelho (via naturaekos)

[amare-habeo]

Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, 1450–1516)

Trial (Weltgericht Triptych), detail, 1490 - 1505

Oil tempera on oak

[chvrlieherbs-deactivated2022021]

I think about fucking you in places i cant afford yet

[neslihancoco]

“If you get angry, stay silent.”

— Prophet Muhammad  (via xhayaat)

[bloomflowersbloom]

I cant wait to be the healthiest version of myself

[life]

In February, 1943, LIFE magazine published a series of photographs from Guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands and the site of the Allies’ first, pivotal offensive in the Pacific during World War II.

One of those pictures, made by a 25-year-old LIFE photographer named Ralph Morse, instantly struck a nerve with the magazine’s millions of readers and today, seven decades later, remains one of the most unsettling images to emerge from any war, anywhere. Morse’s picture (the first in this gallery) of a severed Japanese soldier’s head impaled on a tank captures more graphically and immediately than volumes of words ever could the relentless and often casual barbarity of war. The caption that ran in LIFE:

A Japanese soldier’s skull is propped up on a burned-out Jap [sic] tank by U.S. troops. Fire destroyed the rest of the corpse.

Morse, however, remembers it a bit differently. Here, the story behind the photograph.

[amargedom]

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford (via goodreadss)

[tab000]

my photo of a photo at the virginia museum of fine art

[creanavt]

[rabbruad1]

“May you be fortunate enough to have the time and energy to do what you love, after you’ve spent your time and energy doing what you’ve had to do.”

— Bruce Adler

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Storm on Jupiter

image credit:  NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran

[goodreadss]

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain (via goodreadss)

[books-n-quotes]

I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.

Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself (via books-n-quotes)

[sickpage]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you’re seeing them more clearly.”

—

Jonathan Franzen

[beskt]

[kafkasdiariies]

“Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.” Lord Byron