— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 – 1980

i wish i could stop entering social situations under the presumption that everyone already is annoyed by my presence.. i know i have the capacity for warmth and connection but the second i enter a scenario with other people my mind tries to convince me everyone hates me regardless of how nice the interaction seems to be going… screaming

Found in Anne Carson’s Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

When Franz Kafka said You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love, and Richard Jackson said It was a mistake to keep this single knife in my heart so long, but it is my knife, and my heart, too.

First time making LGBTQ+ Lock Screens :)

Please Like+Reblog if using them, Thankyouu! 

EDIT: OKAAY so I really didn’t expect this to get so many notes lmao, but I am really thankful of those who love these lock screens :)

for the people that think I excluded lesbians, please know that I did not. I am a lesbian myself, but in this I only used ‘Gay’, and I also meant gay girls with this. please don’t think I am excluding people, I just decided to make ‘only 6′ for now. so if you have any requests for other lock screens I should make, tell me in the comments :D

Today's dark cloud is why do we compare ourselves to others when all it does is make us feel like we are nothing but that's not true we are capable of doing so much in our own way but knowing that doesn't help sometimes ... These insecurities eat us alive day by day ,we are stuck on thoughts of what others do? how do they do it ? Rather than what should we do and how should we do it . All these thoughts are about them and they, when it should be about ourselves and should learn from people's achievements, inspire ourselves through their work and not hate them for their success.

#clouds #sky

“I’m in this with you.” 

Art by @kalvzr. 

NADEREH ABDELAHYEVA in The Silence (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1998, Iran, Tajikistan, France)

“Makhmalbaf has said that this scene was inspired by a poem of Forugh Farrokhzad (the popular female poet who died in 1967). Eric Egan has located this poem in which there is a movement from ‘the girl who coloured her cheeks with geranium petals’ to ‘a lonely woman.’ However, it seems that Makhmalbaf remains with the young girl who decorates herself, and who is still in the garden, enjoying paradise. She is not yet ‘a lonely woman’, rather she is enjoying the moment and celebrating life…” [Lloyd Ridgeon, “Listening for an ‘Authentic’ Iran: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The Silence/Sokut]

I have to keep myself reminding this!

You can do and have all you want if you step out of your own way. You are nothing less than stunning.