we-are-fi-ne:

INTROVERT AESTHETIC

-warm tea/hot cocoa

-fuzzy socks

-a crackling fire

-raindrops sliding down your window panes

-being home alone

-staying in your room for hours without being bothered

-a stack of unread books

-binge watching your favorite show on Netflix

-baking

-being crafty

-listening to music for hours

-sleeping in

-playing video games

-sitting on a beach/dock/boat all by yourself

-window seats

-used book stores

-old churches

-crunchy Autumn leaves

thequotejournals:

“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

(Source: thequotejournals.com, via nostalgicdaydreamer)

ultraviolentfairy:

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”

— Dennis Lehane
(via wordsnquotes)

(Source: thequotejournals.com, via somberlily)

celticpyro:

What’s with the newfound fear of little girls wanting to be princesses?

If your five-year-old starts saying she wants to be a princess, tell her ‘princess’ is a political position and that she has a responsibility to look out for her kingdom. Say you’ll be her royal advisor and help her improve her stuffed animal subjects’ standard of living.

See THAT’S how you empower little girls. Not by taking away something they like, but showing them how what they like can be empowering. 

(via historian-in-pearls)