kids forever

to myself, forever ago (this is not for you) ∞∞∞∞

[philosophybits]

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

[astriloquum]

[vexheart]

[derangedrhythms]

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950

[weltenwellen]

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that―I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much―so very much to learn―

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[quotespile]

“Power does not alter a man’s character. It merely reveals it.”

— Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | passionflowersbyemmaspowage

[metamorphesque]

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

[quotemadness]

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present… gratefully.”

— Maya Angelou

[luckystarinsky]

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

- Ulysses

[lovelolla]

cat illustrations by selynn ♥

[philosophybits]

“To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. To master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 33)

[kxowledge]

Peter Sculthorpe, Snow in Hill Country, 2020

Oil on linen

[aestum]

(by roundtheworldgirl)

[djklmnx]

[frachella]

[dappermouth]

You glimpsed a building through the trees, as day slipped into night — darkened windows glistening beneath the neon lights.