ananasi

down with caviar, long live kebab

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

note to self: i am not behind in life. i am doing different things than other people, which is fine, because i have different dreams than them too.

[petaltexturedskies]

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Selected Letters

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[mournfulroses]

Fani Badayun, from a poem titled "I Loved a Fairy," featured in Humsafar : The World of Urdu Poetry

[thoughtkick]

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

[thehappysmiler]

"Dating apps give you the illusion that there's always someone else available " Not at all . It literally makes you certain theres no viable options

[quotespile]

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

[lunamonchtuna]

— Uma Thurman (via lunamonchtuna)

[antigonick]

“How can I celebrate love, now that I know what it does?”

— Gregory Orr, Introduction to Orpheus & Eurydice

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[allsadnshit]

Accepting that maybe even the best version of you would be hated by some people can really set you free like life doesn't have to be making other people comfortable or being the most lovable and fair person in the universe like actually the satisfaction you seek is beyond judgment and lies within your own interests and desires fr

[kosmogrl]

[beguines]

At the end of my poem "The Visitor," there is the line "There is nothing one man will not do to another." It's a truth that I recognized in great pain and horror, but once you know this truth, it's possible to also know that there is nothing one man will not give another, too. We are beings in process, in a deep spiritual process that we recognize and intuit and do not understand at all. It gives me great hope and great faith that it's possible to understand this in a single human lifetime. If we live long enough, if we are given enough time on earth, we can live to see the spiritual potential of human beings.

Carolyn Forché, "Infinite Obligation to the Other" from A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, ed. Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler

[radical-revolution]

You shouldn't be dismayed if a sadness rises up in front of you, greater than any you have ever seen before; or if a disquiet plays over your hands and over all your doings like light and cloud-shadow. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a period of transition and want nothing more than to be transformed. If there is something ailing in the way you go about things, then remember that sickness is the means by which an organism rids itself of something foreign to it. All one has to do is help it to be ill, to have its whole illness and let it break out, for that is how it mends itself...

Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen.

RAINER MARIA RILKE, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET

[dk-thrive]

The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel. Life today is too hard, too bitter, too debilitating for us to suffer new bondages, new captivities from those whom we love. This is how I am your friend: I love your happiness, your freedom, your adventure, in a word - and I would like to be, for you, a companion you can be sure of, always.”

— Albert Camus, (to René Char, 1957) in "Camus-Char: Correspondence 1946-1959) (Gallimard, 2007) (via Alive on All Channels)

[vampurrring]

maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time

[legitimately]

JOY HAS A HABIT OF RETURNING. BTW