“and I will die of love because I want you, because I want you, love, in blood and fire.”
Pablo Neruda, Cien Sonetos de Amor, LXVI
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
— Audrey Hepburn
Red Lotus Sea, Thailand
who else is taking a big sip of
My Significant Other Is Amazing And Im So Lucky to Have Them In My Life juice on this fine tuesday
“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.”
— Barbara Alice Mann, Iroquois woman (via socialuprooting)
Ako (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1965)
A part of being an adult is living with regret and not allowing it to consume you. The older you get, the more mistakes you’ve made, opportunities you’ve missed, people you’ve disappointed. And every day you have to remind yourself to be kind and forgiving of yourself. You accept and love the you from the past and understand that it’s all a part of the process. Then you move on and live your best life, knowing now as old as you feel today, you’ll never be this young again.