LuciaR'EvoSophie

"Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood."

Mary Rakow  (via kaennomai)

(Source: kitty-en-classe, via kaennomai)

"If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists."

A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason)

(via icanhaveitalll)

"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense."

Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love (via kaennomai)

(Source: larmoyante, via kaennomai)

"the year of letting go
of understanding loss, grace of the word ‘no’
and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’
the year of humanity/humility
when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed
everyone i’ve met this year says the same thing
‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’
the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands
the year i learnt small talk
and how to smile at strangers
the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’
the year of sugar, everywhere
softness. sweetness. honey honey.
the year of being alone
and learning how much i like it
the year of hugging people i don’t know because i want to know them
the year i made peace and love
right here"

Warsan Shire  (via commovente)

(via commovente)

victoriousvocabulary:

CYSSAN

[verb]

Old English: to kiss.

Etymology: Proto-Germanic *kussijanan, from Proto-Indo-European *kus-. Cognate with Old Saxon kussian (Dutch kussen), Old High German kussen (German küssen), Old Norse kyssa (Swedish kyssa, Icelandic kyssa), and with Cornish cussin (perhaps also Ancient Greek κυνεῖν).

[Tomasz Alen Kopera]

(via dawnofconsciousness)

dawnofconsciousness:

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"We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder  (via shaktilover)

(via dawnofconsciousness)

Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don’t bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.

(Source: theperksofbeing-a-pharaoh, via delvingwithin)

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (franflow)

(Source: ifveniceissinking, via delvingwithin)

"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quiet valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."

Fernando Pessoa (via fawun)

(Source: seabois, via delvingwithin)