love is the higher law

24. Tea. Sunflowers. Bookstores. Washington to DTX||educator||

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

https://www.pinterest.com/ foodie

[annajoganiyan]

[aepathy-deactivated20140925]

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.

Mary Oliver; “Wild Geese”   (via karibu-nyumbani)

[madewell]

[delta-breezes]

[oaluz]

“When I am feeling dreary, annoyed, and generally unimpressed by life, I imagine what it would be like to come back to this world for just a day after having been dead. I imagine how sentimental I would feel about the very things I once found stupid, hateful, or mundane. Oh, there’s a light switch! I haven’t seen a light switch in how long! I didn’t realize how much I missed light switches! Oh! Oh! And look– the stairs up to our front porch are still completely cracked! Hello cracks! Let me get a good look at you. And there’s my neighbor, standing there, fantastically alive, just the same, still punctuating her sentences with you know what I’m saying? Why did that bother me? It’s so…endearing.”

— RETURNING TO LIFE AFTER BEING DEAD Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal (via podencos)

[sweetoothgirl]

BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WITH SEA SALT

[qvotable]

“Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.”

— Florence + the Machine // How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

[yesdarlingido]

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.

C. JoyBell C. (via yesdarlingido)

[dirtandleather]

things i’m learning about love

- it should be easy

- it should be obvious

- it should be the most fun thing you’ve ever done

- when they tell you something, you should believe them (if you don’t, there’s a reason)

- you should never have to question how they feel

- they should make you feel like the most beautiful thing to walk this planet

- it will be impossible for you to think of anyone on this planet better suited for you

[calm-mysoul]

[championsaremade]

thoughts that comfort me when things are just hard lately:

it is okay to not feel great, as long as you do not close. remain open…open-minded, open-heart. just stay open

do not hurt others just because you might be hurting. this does not help. this does not heal.

do your best to be compassionate

do your best to be gentle

do your best to be calm

do your best to be all of these things to others and to yourself

breathe. be curious and pay attention to the little things

remember that “pain” and “sadness” and feeling hurt and all the “icky” emotions that might be uncomfortable…are things to keep us present and remain ever-growing, ever-learning, ever-expanding

[roseoilz]

amalfi, italy

@gennaro_rispoli on IG

[andallshallbewell]

[rachaeldee]

Years from now, when you look back on this season, you may be surprised at how certain relationships have changed over the years. You might be happy with some of the relationships that evolved in positive ways you were not expecting. You might be grieved or discouraged by others that eventually fell apart. There are so many factors that contribute to the way a relationship can change over the years, and there’s no way you can single handedly control this. However, you can choose to find peace in knowing that through it all, you continued to sow good seeds. You continued to be the one who did not let the shortcomings of others distract you from who were becoming. This does not mean that the actions of others will not affect you, and you should never, ever let anyone walk over you. But just remember this: they do not have any power over your soul or the seeds you choose to sow. They do not control the sun, the rain, the soil, or anything else required for your seeds to spring up from the ground into their bloom. There is still time for you. And one day you will look back and see that your seeds grew in the way they were meant to.

Morgan Harper Nichols

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https://www.instagram.com/dearestdaughters/

[yesdarlingido]

Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn’t sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn’t want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive.

Tara Mohr

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yesdarlingido

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