Big heart, bigger dreams.

[foodffs]

Homemade Broccoli Casserole

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[memeuplift]

[nickioeste]

This sounded too good to be true, so I did a little bit of fact checking.

Mike Ilitch did in fact pay Rosa Parks' rent for years, but it wasn't because she was laid off. She needed a safer place to live after she was assaulted in her own home at the age of 81. He paid her rent from that point onward, for the rest of her life.

The more you know 🌈⭐

Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent for years | CNN

Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly re

[skull-bearer]

When you fact check and it turns out even better than the original story.

[studylustre]

stop asking me wyd i’m literally always thinking about love and how it touches every aspect of the human experience

[thelovejournals]

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.

[supriyachan]

I’ve been looking for this quote for MONTHS.

[bronzyglow]

I jus wanna be called baby & have my back rubbed lol

[redkrypto-deactivated20211128]

i’m screaming

[emiliusthegreat]

I don’t think this woman is straight anymore.

[striikee]

Yall are missing the best fucking part

[idrathergoforgirls]

This is my new favourite post on tumblr, bye

[kimreesesdaughter]

I used to think I was being too picky but fuck that. I deserve someone who wants to know about me. It may sound silly but I don’t wanna be out here fucking with people who never ask my favorite color or if I ate today. I deserve someone who wants to hear my dreams just as much as I want to hear theirs. I deserve the same energy and effort I release. Fuck that. 

[sweetestsecrets]

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not good enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”

— Brené Brown

[wordsnquotes]

“And sometimes it happens, maybe not right away but you look back and realise how certain goodbyes led you to a better place and how sometimes you have to let go of certain people to become who you were always meant to be.”

— Kriti.G

[michellekpoems]

hating myself took too much

energy

that I have decided to spend

in far more beautiful

ways

[wordsnquotes]

“And I learned ‘You deserve better’ was sometimes no more than a synonym for ‘I don’t want to hurt you, and I want you to be happy, but I don’t love you anymore.”

— Beau Taplin, You Deserve Better  (via thelovejournals)

[buttonpoetry]

“My body takes up more space than it deserves and knows it.”

—

Kate Hao - “In Which Every Poem that I Write Becomes a Poem About My Body”

Performing for Washington University at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

[wordsnquotes]

“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”

— Nikita Gill

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[nitabea]

I love this

[have--not-deactivated20160117]

This

[proteinpills]

I’ve always said this. Love is deliberate. Love is a conscious decision.

[supriyachan]

Shitty week but these yellow shorts make me happy 🩳

[creatingnikki]

25 I meet the love of my life

26 I move to another country

27 I publish my first novel and stay in Seoul for 6 months

28 the love of my life asks me to marry him

29 I publish my 2nd novel and have a wedding in Rome

30 my mom and I travel to a new country each month

31 I start a business

32 I help my father write his book

33 I become an aunt to my sister's lovely first born

34 I move to Japan for two years with my husband and our dog; you see by then I am over my fear of dogs

35 I publish my first book in a fantasy series and buy my dream home

36 I write a book on my amazing mom

37 my sister and I live in Paris for a few weeks and feel like we are 17

38 my husband says he wants children and I tell him he always knew that I don't

39 I am divorced and publish a tome of heartbreaking poetry

40 and 41 are spent back at home, seeing it in New light

42 through 46 I'm back with my parents but now we call a snowy city home and are thankful and blessed

47 I finally learn how to bake and open a bakery with my mom

48 I meet the second love of my life and he is gorgeous

49 I publish the final book in my fantasy series

50 is when I see the northern lights and go on a cruise to Antarctica

51 my second husband and I adopt two tween twins

52 my house burns down so he and I spend a year in a tiny house while we build our new home

53 is when am fluent in Japanese and publish a poetry collection in Korean

54 I write and direct a TV show with 13 seasons

55 I feel so young and hopeful and alive

I have to believe my 20s are not the end of me. That they are not the only thing I have in store. That life gets better as I grow older. That my life has only begun.

[blvckgoddesss]

Jus wanna be nasty & happy

[summernicole-deactivated2022021]

Real heavy on boffum