nimphéa

i should be allowed to kill myself when im on my period and then come back to life later

There is so much more life to live when you stop constantly obsessing over who will think you're a bad person or not understand you

I am learning this in the tiniest bites but it pierces me deeply

Bridget Riley. Untitled, 1960

i just have to make it through the next few or tens or hundreds or thousands of weeks. until i'm dead

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

“i don’t owe anyone anything” is one of the most incredibly callous and damaging phrases to enter popular vernacular. you owe everyone kindness and consideration, always. understand the idea of a social contract. you cannot reap the benefits of human society and interaction while maintaining such a cold and thankless attitude about it. i mean you can but you’d be a bad person for it

I have to take this meeting, Julia Soboleva

I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.

This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what's good and bad.

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

In the waves, ca. 1945 - by Ruth Bernhard (1905 - 2006), German/American

November  Forest    -    Lea Ignatius , 1982.

Finnish,  1913-1990

Aquatint, Plate  23.5 x 30 cm.

Gundula Blumi - Fata Morgana

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Aerial view of a volcanic crater. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Photo credit: Chris John

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet