The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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| — | Alan Watts (via thesecretsits) |
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
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| — | F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920) |
Imagine a room,
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated
cities at the center of me, and here is the center
of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we
can drink from, but I can’t go through with it.
I just don’t want to die anymore.
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated
cities at the center of me, and here is the center
of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we
can drink from, but I can’t go through with it.
I just don’t want to die anymore.
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| — | “Saying Your Names,” Richard Siken (via commovente) |
A SPECIAL KIND OF HEARTACHE
Stay busy. Good thoughts. Good
karma. Go running, go shopping, go
out with friends, splurge on a pair
of shoes you’ll only wear once. Feed
your dog, your cat, your pet fish. You
are okay, you are okay, you are okay.
Go to bars and let a boy buy you a
drink. Let him whisper dirty things in
your ear as he wraps
his hand around a disappearing wrist.
But remember: you do not owe anyone.
So many things to do and it is okay,
you are keeping busy. Take showers
that are too hot, showers that burn the
sadness right out of you. Sleep with
the lights on. Tell your friends that
love can be expensive as you decline
their attempts to fix you up. The bar
has been your best friend all these
years. Ignore how your sheets smell
like too much wasted love. You have
things to do. The little sadnesses will
pile up: seeing him, not seeing him,
how you weren’t enough to change
the tide, the wrong boy texting you the
sweetest things. It is okay. Someday,
you will be beautiful again.
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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| — | Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via thosehearts) |
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.
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| — | John Green (via her0inchic) |
This gorgeous heart shaped face apparently learned how to open her crate and the closet to eat multiple bags of hidden chocolate. We should have named her vacuum. But maybe Pumpkin is appropriate because she always needs pumpkin to help her tummy because she picks up snacks that aren’t for her! Of course she is fine and happy as can be. Crazy dogs stress me out, but can’t live without them!
This Instagram is amazing. Makes me want a pit bull companion pup even more.
