So It Goes...

I'm just an average twenty something, who is ambitious only for life itself and all that it has to offer. My passions and interests are ever-changing, just like my thoughts. I only desire to gain in knowledge and feel connected to people from all aspects of life.

[prettystuff]

[timbllr]

[naturaekos]

““So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.””

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[shitiunderline]

“Philosophy, anthropology, theology, and those sciences that tell us what it means to be human can be dangerous if they are considered ideologies that dictate reality; instead, they need to be understood as the means by which we humbly listen to and marvel at reality.”

— Jean Vanier, Becoming human

[depressionmeal]

Depression meal 997

a half cup of coffee you were drinking for breakfast then forgot about and reheated four times until you had the motivation to finish it

[997]

coincidentally the most me depression meal ever posted

[thefergs-pics]

[lensblr-network]

Churchgate Mumbai with thanks to Mt Raghu Rai for the inspiration (at Churchgate railway station)

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photo by John Ferguson  (thefergs-pics.tumblr.com)

[aidashakur]

[myahsimss]

Let me cry when I need to cry.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Am I not losing interest in everything? To lose interest in everything is to be abandoned by everything.”

— Takuboku Ishikawa, from “Romaji Diary & Sad Toys,” published c. 1985

[macrolit]

“… we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

— 1Q84, Haruki Murakami

[vintagepales2-blog]

Udaipur, India

[ecrituria]

“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must–at that moment–become the center of the universe.”

— Elie Wiesel, from his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize speech (via theclassicsreader)

[beccafromaphistory]

rip to all the kids who used to reads books cover to cover in one sitting and now can’t find the energy to read for fun

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

[ID: an excerpt from ‘Elektra,’ Sophocles (translated by Anne Carson)

Why are you so in love  with things unbearable?”]

[books-n-quotes]

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers (via books-n-quotes)

[impressionism-art-blog]

The Red Cape (Madame Monet), 1870, Claude Monet

Medium: oil,canvas

[stonecrop]

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

[made-of-love-and-stars]

THIS.

[allthingseurope]

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow (by Art Artemyev)