physically? im here, but mentally im in a renaissance painting wearing a silk dress and looking wistfully into the distance
(via renaissance-art)
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A squeeze of the hand—enormous documentation—a tiny gesture within the palm, a knee which doesn’t move away, an arm extended, as if quite naturally, along the back of a sofa and against which the other’s head gradually comes to rest—this is the paradisiac realm of subtle and clandestine signs: a kind of festival not of the senses but of meaning.
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by Roland Barthes, “Contacts” in A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (via lilgivenchyprincess)
(Source: kelseylorene, via lilgivenchyprincess)
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For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that ‘unless you love yourself, no one else will love you’ …The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
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by Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (via khanos)
okay but have I not been preaching and praying and preaching this
(via caringsuggestion)
(Source: fyp-psychology.com, via catholicnunisdead)
