"و لو أن إبليس يومًا رآكِ، لقبل عينيك ثم اهتدى"
"And if the devil were to see you, he would kiss your eyes and repent"
-farouq gouida
"I'll walk with you" is just an excuse to spend more time with someone before they go and that's romantic as fuck
write me a love letter and seal it with a stolen kiss,
take my hand and lead me on an ethereal adventure,
write me a song and sing it under my window,
where my parents can’t see you.
press flowers and hide them in the pages of the books you give me,
write me a story and read it to me while we fall asleep,
paint me the sunrise on the day we met,
when everything was so much sweeter.
Make me believe in love again.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon (via naturaekos)
“I want us to have history, something longer than the small window of time we’re actually sharing, with an even longer future.” — mateo
i've read this book two years ago but i'm crying harder now ;(
reading noli and fili outside of class; understanding the anger, the ire; wishing that basilio never threw away the lamp
foregoing the tweed and the wool because they’re just not options in this tropical heat
staring longingly at the textile exhibits in the museum: the lovely piña, the beautiful indigenous patterns
never shy about your political opinion because our forefathers didn’t die for this bullshit
trying to find the longest sentence in nick joaquin’s stories for fun
carrying yourself with pride, knowing that the blood of revolutionaries flows through your veins
desperately searching for more of leona florentino’s poems as if your gay life depended on it
Someday, I will write a novel about this place. The first time I went to Paris, it mesmerized me. The second time I went, I found it once again.
Dark Academia Playlist
a little dark, a little whimsical, tunes to make you feel like the main character in a film.
roslyn — bon iver, st. vincent
the secret history — the chamber orchestra of london
les mémoires blessées — dark sanctuary
into dust — mazzy star
clair de lune, l. 32 — claude debussy
show me how — men i trust
eyes on fire — blue foundation
over the moon — the marías
falling asleep with a book on your chest — lullatone
solo — five mile town
tchaikovsky: swan lake — pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky
altogether — slowdive
cigar & a 78 — five mile town
visions of gideon — sufjan stevens
thinking of you — cosmic child
headache — grouper
if i’m asleep — five mile town
dark — daffodils
give me the old-school love. write me letters. leave me random notes. kiss my hands. slow dance with me. write a poem. lie down with me on the grass. read to me.
While we are all just stuck home, I decided to compile a bunch of ideas what to do:
Cook or learn to cook
Meditate
Stretch
Work out (I recommend blogilates!)
Take care of plants (repot them…) or if you have a garden then work there
Clean
Tidy and declutter using the konmari method
Read
Watch movies
Start a new series
Sew
Embroidery
Alter clothes
Make new outfits
Write
Draw
Learn a new skill
Research things you are interested in (minimalism, witchcraft..)
Teach your pet a new trick
Play around with make up
Detox (coffee, make up…)
Indoor photography
Sexy stuff (alone or with your partner)
Redecorate
Journal
Create new music playlist
Have you ever tried just existing in silence for 5 minutes?
Build a pillow fort
Find a new favourite channel
Do some yoga
Try bullet journaling
Have a self-care day
Play video games
Learn a dance choreo from youtube
Walk around naked
Learn to sing a whole song
Look for new music
Call your friends and family
Fix what needs fixing
Feel free to add more ideas!
“Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”
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something inside of me is urging me to run away from this place i called “home” and go somewhere far where no one knows my name, my story, and my life.
“I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
(via amargedom)
“We all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique your own. Even though others may think them odd or unpopular.”
— Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society
“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus and always thus will be.”
— Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society
— Mr. Keating, Dead Poets Society
we will love. no punchline. no fancy statements. no perfect structures. we will love.
Beau Sia, excerpt from Reverse Engineering (via naturaekos)
I like observing people. I like looking at things.
(via amargedom)
“Only those who care about you can hear you when you’re quiet.”
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When you write an amazing line and can’t tell if you’re a genius or just accidentally plagiarized it from a book you read seven years ago:
i wanna learn bisaya but idk where to start kjsksjsk dummy
✨Law student aesthetic
Moodboard for @cryinnocentdemons
Me before making any decision: okay but what would park saeroyi do in this situation
Can we stop seeing people for who we expect them to be and just let them be
i want to live a passion-driven life. how.