the concept of love

[inkskinned]

Just love without pretense. Love without calculation. Love without a winner, love without a martyr, love like - I know you were hungry, I saved you half of my sandwich. Like - I know you hate silence, give me a second to get the music on. Like - move over, let's be alone together. Love like taking off your makeup. Like fresh cleaned sheets. Like: I see you and you see me.

[transatlanticgirl]

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

Some of your problems will inevitably stem from your refusal to view other human beings with the same complexity and nuance you see in yourself

[cy-lindric]

Small worlds.

[justdave-deactivated20211107]

“We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can’t do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

[beatricebidelaire]

daniel handler // richard siken

[thoodleoo]

in the odyssey love is defined by people knowing the intimate details of your life...like odysseus's nurse recognizing him by his scar or penelope testing him by ordering the marriage bed that he carved into a tree to be moved. tons of people have heard the story and triumphs of odysseus but only the few people who love him know the little details about him and that really fucks me up!

[jeffc3s]

[classicsclique]

my favorite quotes about love

“i’ll take care of you.” “it’s rotten work” “not to me, not of it’s you” -euripides

“it’s not the whole truth. the whole truth is i am in love with him still” -if we were villians, m.l. rio

“if anyone does not believe in venus they should gaze at my girlfriend” -unknown

“heaven help a fool who falls in love” -ophelia, the lumineers

“i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong” -lemony snicket

“the world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. the curves of your lips rewrite history” -oscar wilde

“but loving you is a good problem to have” -monster, adventure time

“life is the flower for which love is the honey” -byron

“i know the world's a broken bone, but melt your headaches, call it home” -panic! at the disco, northern downpour

“where you go i’m going so jump and i’m jumping” -achilles come down, gang of youths

“i can take care of myself just fine. all right?” “no” “what do you mean no?” “no” -dead poets society

“i just want to get groceries i pray you want to get close to me” -groceries, mallrat

[beingsinthedream]

ottessa moshfegh

[infamously-exhausted]

when indya moore said “when I tell people oh I love you, they think it’s weird, but that’s okay. you don’t have to understand. my love is not measured in reciprocity. that’s not the way I learned love. I love you” i felt that

[lovecrumbss]

carol rabe - kim cogan - carol rabe - wayne thiebaud - peter brown - laura lacambra shubert - thomas ruckstuhl - ekaterina popova

[inkskinned]

Relationships are not transactional. My mama always said they were more like a dance. This friendship is a foxtrot, all light feet and laughter. A waltz of old friends, the tango of the unspoken almost-something, the maybe-modern maybe-classic ballet/rhumba variation of best friends that simply see a movement and fall in step.

It is important, is all, to notice how often you extend a hand and lead the waltz. How often they leave you, hand out, hurting. Would they pick you up from the sidelines. Would they make some fragile excuses. Is this person your dance partner or are they your ruin. Do they care about you, baby. Will they cross the floor backwards on heels. Will they be there when you falter. How quickly do they forget you. What do you feel.

[qunaributts]

I had a professor in college who used to start solving every problem with the same dialogue.

Proff: What’s the first step to solving any problem? Class: Don’t panic. Proff: And why is that? Class: Because we know more than we think we do.

I think about that a lot tbh. It didn’t occur to me until much later that he meant for us to apply that dialogue outside of the classroom to any problem. Because we always know more than we think we do. We are all an amalgam of random information that ends up being relevant with surprising frequency.

[mothcub]

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

[mrs-lux-blog]