28. Indigenous. Muslim. Feminist.

[themountainlaurel-deactivated20]

India Earl

[womaninthewoods-deactivated2016]

To my powerful, brave outdoors women,or women in general

Never, ever date anyone who brings you down and knocks down your passions. Do not date anyone who doesn’t understand why skiing fresh powder is relaxing, or reaching the top of a route climbing is empowering. Don’t date someone who scoffs when you take off your make up or don’t wash your hair for a few days. Don’t date someone who doesn’t allow you to have the space you need to go on a hike by yourself, or take a day by yourself on the slopes. Don’t date someone who cringes when their fingers trace the calluses on your hand or is disgusted by the blisters on your feet – you worked hard for those.

Date someone who makes you feel free and encourages you to soar. Date someone who can’t wait to hear about your trip when you get back and will welcome you with a foot rub and cuddles. Date someone who thinks you are most beautiful when you are strong.Date someone who loves what you love or at least loves that you love what you love.

[naturaekos]

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.

Jodi Picoult (via naturaekos)

[theoldestchorusgirlintheworld]

I feel fundamentally dishonest using the phrase “low key” so often because inside my heart and soul I’m actually and unambiguously and inappropriately obsessively 100% full scale high key about literally everything I ever think and feel and look at.

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

it baffles me that theres people who can just… just sit down and take out their homework and be like “time to work yes” and actually…get things done???? without a problem??? and move on?????? thats wild

[kushandwizdom]

You deserve to be loved consistently, not conditionally; with someone’s whole heart, not just the remaining pieces of it.

Keep Growing (via kushandwizdom)

[rampartxsoundsystem]

[purplebuddhaproject]

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

Paulo Coelho (via purplebuddhaproject)

[punlovsin]

In my most secret spirit grew a whirling and a wandering fire:

W.B.Yeats, from “The Madness of King Goll,” The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (Scribner, 2nd Revised edition, 1996)

[fallairdontcare]

[brain-chafing]

Funny when non-Natives ask you specifically for an Indigenous perspective. I am literally always giving an Indigenous perspective.

[quotes-for-reference]

Sorry. Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people’s pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It’s a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It’s the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. Its theirs to take or leave. Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won’t settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn’t take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It’s an offering. A gift.

Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey (via quotes-for-reference)

[pureblyss]

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

Ephesians‬ ‭4:2‬ ‭NLT‬‬ (via pureblyss)

[danielalaa-deactivated20150725]

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Romans 12:9-18 (via danielalaa)

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via rabbitinthemoon)

[quotemadness]

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

John Steinbeck (via quotemadness)

[berrybluecupcakes-deactivated20]

What people are craving isn’t perfection. People aren’t longing to be impressed; they’re longing to feel like they’re home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they’ll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no matter how odd.

Shauna Niequist (via berrybluecupcakes)