#note to you

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
— Franz Kafka

Photo by Lupi Spuma for LENA HOSCHEK

you’re playing it cool
they’re playing it cool
who wins? NOBODY.
— Yrsa Daley-Ward

painting by Christian Vincent

Don’t ever think that everyone who leaves wants to. —Rachel Wolchin

artwork by tamokuteki16

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
— Cheryl Strayed

Artwork by Tigran Tsitoghdzyan

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
walking a fine line between romance and lust.
Breathing me in, the scent left on those lips from your cigarette, filled with regret;
but although this everlasting love rises and falls, the tears can not be unwept.

In The End - Lang Leav

#PrescriptionPost

Dear Artidote,
How do you know if you love someone out of loneliness? Is it love or just filling the void?

“Dear Gentle Soul,

The heart is such a hopeful thing. It is always looking for a place to grow roots in. It feels that the best place for these roots is with another heart, love being the soil in which they grow. However, even the truest loves can fall apart and the garden where love once lived withers. Yet, after experiencing the intensity of love once, the heart yearns for the happiness it once had, and searches desperately for the soil it had grown such beautiful flowers in.

Loneliness is a kind of soil too. In it flowers do grow. But they are weaker than the kind that grow with love. They crumble easily, and no amount of nurturing is going to help them grow stronger.

So how does one distinguish between them?

By asking yourself: If you lost them, would you miss the love they are filling in your heart or would you miss them for the person they are aside from the love they give you and how you have both grown stronger since knowing each other?

If you miss them because you will miss their love, then you are loving to fill a void, and neither of you can truly grow this way. If you miss them for who they are and for all the ways you have grown together as people, then you have found love and the roots in your hearts are stronger together than you can even imagine. Now, imagine the kind of flowers you will grow once you know this for sure.” —The Artidote (Nikita Gill)

artwork by Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.” —Nayyirah Waheed #ThingsItTakesAWhileToUnderstand

painting by Rene Magritte

“You will never have to chase what wants to stay with you.” —Unknown #ThingsToNeverForget

painting by Julien Legars - Beauty-idea

“You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life.” ―Eliza Engellenner #JustSaying

photo by Molly Porter

Choose Love - Lang Leav

#heartparasites

“There’s a part of me that’s going to be in love with you for the rest of my life.”

– Unknown

Art by Space Ink via Tumblr

I’m independent and strong, but sometimes…just sometimes, it’s nice to be taken care of.
— Samantha Towle

Drawing by Loretta Mae on ELLO

“You’re never going to be 100% ready and it’s never going to be just the right time, but that’s the point. It means that every moment is also the right moment. If you want it, you just have to do it.” —unknown #ThingsToNeverForget

paper sculpture by Susan Hannon

“I could spend 15 minutes choosing an outfit, or read a menu twice and still not know what to order. You know I’m never sure of anything. But I was so fucking sure of you.”

Words: M.B.
Artist: unknown

#dailyhealing

And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.

- Iain Thomas

Photography by Dorota Majewska

He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it.
— Jennifer E. Smith

Painting by Ray Caesar.

“You don’t love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can’t help it.” -Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock #ThingsItTakesAWhileToUnderstand

photo by Jovana Rikalo

I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
— Haruki Murakami

Photo by Alberto Seveso (Official Fanpage)

I really wish you saw what I see in you.