"Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me."
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume I 1931-1934
it's such a fall/winter show to me idk it's so cozy and magical
if you can and want to, go to college when you’re 30. move out at 40. learn to drive at 50. life is short but it is also so long. it’s not too late to do new things.
the stitches in my arm look cool i feel like a pirate
Time to post my favorite image
sometimes you have to let certain feelings just pass through you. you feel it, then you let it go. you don’t hold on and you don’t act on it. it’s just visiting you for a moment and doesn’t have to mean much more
𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰 🍵
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.