Bell Hooks, From All About Love

one thing i’ve learnt is that u can’t put your life on hold for that perfect idealized future moment. thats just condemning your present self to needless repentance and suffering. get that haircut now — not when you’ve lost x amount of weight. go get on that long drive out to the ocean NOW — don’t sit and wait for that hypothetical daydreamy significant other to arrive. you can’t save important life experiences for a self that ultimately doesn’t exist. all you have is you, right now, at this very moment. perfection is a myth anyway, just another perfect word for procrastination. do you want to live a life of i could have’s? please do not let your life wither away right before your eyes bc u were too busy putting it off

Isn’t it a beautiful thought that one day you’re gonna have little people running around your house that are half you and half the person you love.

George Seferis, from “Sleep wrapped you in green leaves.”

اشرب قهوتك، واعتنق الصمت، ولا تأخذ الناس على محمل الجد.. لا تأخذ الحياة على عاتقك، ولا تبالغ في عاطفتك، ولا تُرضي أحدًا رغمًا عنك.

Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

may 3, 2020 i’ve had this in my drafts for over a year. that is ridiculous. anyways, please enjoy some new content.

“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

im in this photo and i don’t like it

My willow square blanket is finished! 5 months of working on and off because of the heat but I’m so happy with how it turned out! Looking forward to gifting this later in the week!

Tagging @abovethesmokestacks because I know you wanted to see it finished 🥰🥰

olivia rodrigo really created an album that wonderfully captures being a teen and emotional and angry and lonely and and in love all the time and confused caught in the stage where you're treated like an adult but seen as a child and on top of all that bullshit you're learning how to fucking parallel park. like goddamn olivia you got me going through the five stages of grief every song and it's amazing.