a rose is a rose is a rose

[therisingfog]

[asoftwrongness]

[back-to-the-stars-again]

Supermoon rising above Rome, Italy, Dec 2016.

Credit: Gianluca Masi

[pigmenting]

i need this tattooed to me

[lyjerria]

as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

[violet-fields-deactivated202106]

[heresay]

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do – but who is that ‘we’? – and nothing 'they’ can do either – and who are 'they’ – then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”

— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

[machetelanding]

[misswallflower]

“Visible Light” series by Alexander Harding

[20aliens-deactivated20200625]

TURKEY. Istanbul. 1998. Bus stop at Kadikoy, Asian district of Istanbul. Harry Gruyaert

[tphd]

IN 2018 OPTIMISM FEELS BOTH RECKLESS AND NECESSARY

[valsez]

“(For how long? No matter. A moment is forever.)”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries (via yidan)

[nevver]

Quantum entanglement, Flora Maclean

[reveurh]

i wish i had a home somewhere in northern italy where i can spend my summers reading books, biking through the country, and eating fresh fruit all day

[4a0000-deactivated20180901]

The moon has known me all my life

[lilldiosa]

this is the most comforting thing I’ve read so far in 2018

[inthetags]

reblog this and put in the tags which capital cities you’ve been to

[perpetualsense]

greens and yellows in Rome