December 2011
Rats free each other from cages →
kneedull:
Rats, often anthropomorphized as greedy and selfish, may not be the callous, cartoon villains they are sometimes made out to be. A paper published today in Science demonstrates that the rodents will liberate trapped cage-mates — even when they have nothing to gain.
There is a growing body of research showing that animals respond to the emotions of others. But it wasn’t certain...
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate...”
– bell hooks (via not-badforagirl)
there is a difference between needing outside validation, and just wanting to share existence with another person. i am exploring this boundary, as i’ve been too far on the self-defining side for far too long, and it led me to some horrible, horrible black...
I finally have a glimmer, for the first time in months, of the way in which anger only hurts myself, and how forgiveness is the birthplace of true strength and self-preservation and wholeness.
I forgive. I love. I let go. I will not forget. I refuse to blame myself. People will find ways to hurt me no matter how scared I am, how much I refuse to expose myself. They will find ways. I have to learn...
“Our tickets to the future are blank.”
Trigun
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– Edmund Dantes (via orientaltiger)
I forgive you.
People who sin say this: That they had to, to survive. People who sin say this: That it’s too late to stop. The shadow called sin hounds them steadily without a word. Remorse and agony repeat, to finally end up at despair. But sinners don’t know that if they turn around there is a light, a light which keeps shining on them ever so warmly.
Trigun.
face crusted with drying tears. an insatiable desire to cut. it’s been almost a year, maybe. i won’t. stupid. lost. lost. lost.
this life is broken. do-over plz k thx.
“You might say, “What a dreadful day,” without realizing that the cold, the wind,...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via daemoninterioris)
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– J. Krishnamurti (via icebelow)
144k:
I’m so hurt. I just want to know where we are headed. To see if this pain is worth it.
“At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via danseurs)
