Be curious, not judgemental

[thecolorblockcurator]

Amy Sherald

[ughpoems]

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke (via ughpoems)

I’m feeling the Rilke quotes today...

[apublicserenade]

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via apublicserenade)

[shitiunderline]

The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along.  Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Part One IV,” from Sonnets to Orpheus (via shitiunderline)

[bookmania]

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via bookmania)

[severinasunshine-blog]

My personality according to Pottermore...

Patronus: Mongrel dog  

Dog (spirit animal) symbolic meanings: adventure, constancy, curiosity, devotion, friendship, loyalty, protection, patience, vocalizing truths, unconditional love, hearing beyond the veil

Ivermorny house: Pukwudgie (represents the heart; favors healers)

Hogwarts house: Slytherin (values ambition and resourcefulness)

Wand type: Laurel, unicorn hair, 14 ½ inches, rigid

Laurel

It is said that a laurel wand cannot perform a dishonourable act, although in the quest for glory (a not uncommon goal for those best suited to these wands), I have known laurel wands perform powerful and sometimes lethal magic. Laurel wands are sometimes called fickle, but this is unfair. The laurel wand seems unable to tolerate laziness in a possessor, and it is in such conditions that it is most easily and willingly won away. Otherwise, it will cleave happily to its first match forever, and indeed has the unusual and engaging attribute of issuing a spontaneous lightning strike if another witch or wizard attempts to steal it.

Unicorn

Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard. Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may 'die' and need replacing.

14 ½" in length

Longer wands might suit taller wizards, but they tend to be drawn to bigger personalities, and those of a more spacious and dramatic style of magic. 

Rigid

Wand flexibility or rigidity denotes the degree of adaptability and willingness to change possessed by the wand-and-owner pair - although, again, this factor ought not to be considered separately from the wand wood, core and length, nor of the owner’s life experience and style of magic