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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via goodreadss)

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Burt Glinn (1925-2008)

Kawabata Yasunari 川端 康成 (1899-1972) - Japan - 1961

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Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata walking with his wife Hideko and his dog, Asakusa, Tokyo - 1928-29.

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A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.

Miyamoto Musashi (via theemotionmachine)

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beautiful urdu words

naaz - ناز  - pride, grace

farishta - فرشتہ - angel

pakeezah - پاکیزہ - pure

ashq - اشك - tears

firdaus - فردوس - paradise

hairat - حیرت - wonder

ishq - عشق - love

gul - گل - rose

lazzat - لذت  - pleasure/joy

nazakat - نزاکت - delicacy, finesse

zakhm - زخم - wound

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Marcus Aurelius on Getting Out of Bed,

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I am rising to do the work of a human being. What do I have to complain about, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” But it’s nicer here …

So were you born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands? But we have to sleep sometime… Agreed. But nature set a limit on that, as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that. But not of working. There’s still more of that to do.

You don’t love yourself enough. For if you did, you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. Is not then your labor in the world just as worthy of respect and worth your effort?

Meditations, Book 5, Paragraph 1

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Im begging you for help. 

This is my friend, he’s only 17 years old, 18 this July. He’s funny and kind and generous. He’s very smart and talented, and really cares about his friends and for others. Hes trapped. Trapped in an abusive home and with abusive parents. 

Things have always been bad, threats to be beaten, actually being beaten, constant sexist and transphobic bullshit. Everyday, almost every hour. My friend doesn’t get a break.He’s told how “disgusting” he looks, or how “unwanted” he is. Hes insulted for eating, for not eating. For how he dresses, how he talks, what he likes. If he ever found something he liked; drawing, writing, the computer, talking to friends, watching anime, it was taken away and insulted. He has no safe place, no support, no love. and today things got worse…..

His father has threatened to kill him

“Have you decided to die?? Then just go DIE?? Stop killing me everyday?? You better stay in the house and go to college and if you think you could run away with your friend and use their money or anything I wont be human, I’d cut you piece by piece.” His father, his own father, is now threatening to “bury” him.  "why the hell do you walk around this house like you’re dead?? Is this how you behave in a house?? What have we done to you so bad that you act like this? Did we hit and beat you up? Do you even know what true suffering is??” The answer is yes. They have hit him and beaten him up, many times. Yes he does know what suffering is, not only to be a  lgbt teenager in India in a unsupportive home. But also because abuse is as common as breathing for him. 

The last time I went to India the two of us tried to run away together and failed. We got caught. Im back in the states now trying to get a visa to return and I think they have turned off his wifi and blocked my number as of today. I have booked a ticket for July 4rd. His birthday. However I need your help. I need someone to talk to, to help me plan this out, to figure out what I should do. I need someone who can come with me to India, I need money, I need advice, he needs support.

Ive never met someone quite like him, he struggles everyday and despite it all, despite being told hes “better off dead”. Despite being called “worthless” and a “punishment”, despite the insults and the abuse. He loves his family and is pushing through it all for a bright future. We have struggled together on our own for so long. Its been over a year of trying to escape. We cant do this alone anymore. Please dont let him die. Not because of his father, or this world. 

Help me show him people care, that someone out there loves him and wants to see him smile. Help me bring him to a safe place where he can recover. Please. I couldn’t live without him. Dont let his life….or his hope slip away. 

Please. Save his life, save mine. His father has threatened twice to call the police on me and claims to “know everything you’re planning”. He doesn’t but his assumptions are way too close for comfort. Im all alone here. Please anything you can do literally anything. Help me. Help him. We are just kids, the world shouldn’t be so cruel. Hes all I have, please help me to save him.

My square cash can be found here:

My email is [email protected]

Please im me or send me a ask. 

My Go fund me is here

Please im begging you.

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The place I come from is beautiful.

Pakistan, Asia

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Shukar kar, fikar na kar

(via maharani-kaur)

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fuck absolutely everything about the royal family every time i see a magazine cover thats like “adorable! prince george just shit his fucking diaper and it made me love imperialism again” i lose 10% of the cells in my body out of rage

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)

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József Borsos

Der Emir vom Libanon (Porträt von Edmund Graf Zichy) ]

1843

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Explanation of Reincarnation

•You are the universe.

•You are the universe expressing itself as a human being for a short time.

•You are the universe being aware of itself, seeing itself though your eyes.

•You are not the individual self / ego that you identify with. That’s just a role-playing game the Universe is playing.

•When the body dies, the ego dies and the illusion of an individual self dies too.

•But the Universe goes on, expressing itself in new and various ways.

•People die, and babies are born.

•You are the universe, you are life itself. You will not die, you will go on, expressing yourself and role-playing in various life after life.