luxe-pauvre:

“In Plato’s eyes, love is in essence a kind of education: you couldn’t really love someone if you didn’t want to be improved by them. Love should be two people trying to grow together - and helping each other to do so. Which means you need to get together with the person who contains a missing bit of your evolution: the virtues you don’t have. This sounds entirely odd nowadays when we tend to interpret love as finding someone perfect just as they are. In the heat of arguments, lovers sometimes say to one another: ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t try to change me.’ Plato thinks the diametric opposite. He wants us to enter relationships in a far less combative and proud way. We should accept that we are not complete and allow our lovers to teach us things. A good relationship has to mean we won’t love the other person exactly as they are. It means committing to helping them become a better version of themselves - and to endure the stormy passages this inevitably involves - while also not resisting their attempts to improve us.”

— TSoL, Great Thinkers, Plato

luthienne:

“Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like a white and shadowy sea.”

— Ray Bradbury, from Dandelion Wine

dont-lose-yourselfff:

nocuer:

You ain’t at your lowest till you sit down in a standing shower

☹️

hiphopandanime:

That sweet, that nasty that gushy stuff