am Leben

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. "

- Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

[larameeee]

[fabforgottennobility]

Naturalmente

[questcequecestqueca]

Yazd, Iran

[pisces-core]

[freak]

︎⠀✰

[melissem]

Occupy Parking Lots (with Persian Rugs), 2012

Joshua Citarella

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

[altramagar]

[isitandwonder]

Azadi

[loneranger0369]

One of the Youtube comments on a Video of the Iranian Revolution. Most Likely from an Iranian Woman.

"We keep saying basic human rights,but I don't think the non iranian truely understand what we mean... it's the right to :

eat/drink whatever you want

Read/watch/write whatever you want

Have an opinion,and express it in any shape or form that you want

Check into a hotel or travel an unmarried woman to wherever you want

Practice whatever religion you want

Study whatever subject you want

Date/marry whomever you want

Own a freakin dog as a pet if you want

Wear whatever you want

These are BASIC human rights... that Iranians don't have and get arrested for on a daily basis, tourtued and killed for the last 43 years."

[federer7]

Little Boy and His Donkey. Tordesillas ( Valladolid ), Spain. 1955

Photo: Inge Morath

MutualArt

[fawnaura]

“I don’t know how to express that being with someone so dangerous was the last time I felt safe.”

— Janet Fitch, from White Oleander

[historical-nonfiction]

Recently washed rugs being laid out to dry near Tehran, Iran. Circa 1972.

[mockiatoh]

You can’t deserve a person’s love. You’ll drive yourself crazy thinking like that. They either love you, or they don’t. That doesn’t mean you weren’t good enough for them to love you, because love isn’t something you earn by being good enough. It isn’t something that can be quantified or doled out. Don’t blame yourself for not being loved how you need to, just teach yourself how to look for love where love lives.

[derekjarman]

نون و گلدون‎ (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[gimagez]

The reality we’re in is only in our minds.

[90sagony]

#205 Domestic studies: Lost in Translation (2003)