im never as good as when you're here

its been the kind of week where i really need a post like this. a post of amazing reminders and overwhelmingly blissful syllables at a time where suddenly the world makes a lot less sense. so here's a compliation of some stuff ive found while stumblingupon. i hope i dont have other weeks like this where i need to find it, but its here.

"One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.” (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that phrase.) He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went on, “Nothing means as much without that person.”
One of the men in the class repeated, incredulous, half-laughing “so you’re saying you can’t enjoy, like, a vacation, without someone if you’re really in love with them?”
“Of course not.” the professor replied. “Not completely. You recognize beauty, but beauty means less if they don’t witness it with you. Beauty is less. You see something sublime and your first thought is that they should be there with you. It’s not as good without them. They illuminate. They make everything more."

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened—or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on."
— Tupac Shakur

"Someday, someone is going to walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else. "

"I guess I’m just sort of in the mood to have a crush on somebody where it can’t hurt too much."

"There are moments when it’s too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That’s when you know there’s something lacking in your life. You just know." --frank sinatra

"S,

I wish I knew what to do with you.

— J"


i'm sure there will be more, but for now this is what it is.