New York, INTJ

"I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.”

[thehopefulquotes]

“Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.”

— David Levithan, Wide awake

[toiich]

Jeanetta Cochrane (1967), dir. Peter Whitehead

[luxe-pauvre]

Why are we so stupid? Why don't we realise that when people are trying so hard to perform and perfect their lives, it's usually a sign that they don't really like living them?

Daisy Buchanan, Insatiable

[aestum]

(by matt.snell)

[christmasxmas]

[faustique]

all this social media shit don‘t matter, make sure you‘re happy in real life

[xbuggyxboyx]

they need to invent a staying up late that doesn't make you get less sleep

[sahlesummerhill]

[larmoyante]

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”

— Anaïs Nin

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[funeral]

“The Nietzschean hero is not he who is fearless, but he who overcomes great fear, not he who is pitiless, but he who overcomes a debilitating pity. Decadence and growth are inseparable, for the latter is the ongoing overcoming of the former…The purpose of human life is not the establishment of a utopia in which the victorious forces of good have eliminated opposition and strife. Life has no purpose but itself. The battle between good and evil is not a prelude to some future state of passivity. Indeed, to posit a purpose to life is to demean living to a mere means. For life is struggle, nothing more nor less.”

— Leslie Paul Thiele, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism

[cannibalchicken]

[kafk-a]

Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

[allthingseurope]

Prague (by Matteus Silva)

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Finally, in a low whisper, he said, 'I think I might be a terrible person.' For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder.

Then “I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

-Miranda July, The First Bad Man

[petrichara]

To be loved is to be immortal

[petrichara]

How many dead man’s recipes do we cook? How many faces make up our own? How many creations born from love live on when we do not? How often have I spoken his name, even in death, even when he cannot hear?

[petrichara]

Magnetic buttons were patented in 2013 by Maura Thornton to make accessible clothing for her husband, Don, who had Parkinson’s [1]. Goldfish crackers were made in 1958 by a Swiss biscuit-maker as a birthday present for his Pisces wife [2]. In the 1920s the band-aid was thought of by cotton-buyer Dickson for his wife, Josephine, who often nicked herself during cooking [3]. In 1894 surgical gloves were invented by surgeon William Halsted to ease the hands of his scrub nurse, and later his wife [4]. Custard powder, an egg-free early version of baking powder, was created in 1837 by baker Alfred Bird so his wife, who was allergic to eggs, could enjoy baked goods [5]. There is so much love.