Tag Archives: love

When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman.

Joss Whedon (via jawipanda) (via gilstoker)
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this is pretty awesome…

here’s an example…

I have fallen head-over-heels in love with Mandy the market-trader from Milton Keynes. She smells of hot dogs and counterfeit perfume.

On our first date, I decided to woo Mandy with some Greek mythology I’d recently read:  ‘In the beginning,’ I explained, ‘all human beings were hermaphrodites with four hands and four legs and two faces turned in opposite directions on the same head. These hermaphrodites were so powerful and their pride so self-absorbed that Zeus [the supreme god] was forced to cut them in two – into a male and female half. And from that day, each man and each woman has yearned to rejoin the half from which he or she has been severed’.

Mandy told me to stop being drippy.

‘But I think you’re my severed half,’ I cried.

Mandy did not reply. And we spent the rest of the evening in a disastrous silence.

and another example…

and one more…

(there are so many more good ones, but go look for yourselves…)

Realistic Love Letters

I fall in love from a distance easily and swiftly. I know I idolize people, and that it can prevent true connections from forming, and I’m working on that, but I’m still a bit of awe of anyone with talent or passion. Maybe they’re the same thing. Lately I keep thinking, I could fall in love with a mathematician, or someone who does scientific research, who would be my equal. I could only be happy with someone who is brilliant. But the next day it will be, I’ll love someone with their own life, with their own interests, who I’ll never be able to fully understand, but that won’t matter. This week I’m sure it will be someone with freckles. Last week I was sure I’d fall for someone with a beautiful voice. Or maybe someone who is reckless, or ambitious, or brave, or broken. We could repair each other. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m open to the possibilities. I think people am not always the best at understanding or interacting. I think people are beautiful.

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This track sounds just like kids singing, but it’s really special to me because these are kids I love and try to watch over when I can. Also, because Lowry Olafson is AWESOME and I got to partake in a similar song writing workshop with him several years ago.

Chorus:
It’s awesome, so awesome,
This feeling of love.
It’s awesome, so awesome,
Like it comes from up above.

Love is a dream,
Love changes everything,
Floats like the clouds
On a summer day.
High in the sky,
There’s enough for everyone,
Open up your heart,
Love leads the way.

Chorus

Starts with a smile,
Love spreads so easily,
All across the world,
When we care.
We’re all here
To share the love around,
You can find it everywhere,
Love is in the air.

Chorus

how to practice mega supreme body love daily

domesticnoise:

Whenever you have a negative thought about your body, run these four questions through your mind:

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
3. How do you react when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?

Byron Katie developed this powerful set of questions — you can learn more about them & her technique here! (I only just found out about it & am really excited to get into it some more!)

Sometimes we are on exactly the same page. I was just thinking about body image, and using positive words to describe one’s self on the way home from school