Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.

The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

NASA Lunar Science Institute, We Originated in the Belly of a Star, 2012.  (via cigrette)

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Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you better. It’s just an ever-deepening, creepy-ass trap; a trap that is a huge moneymaker for corporations that do not have and never will have good intentions. You’re not disgusting. You’re not freakish. You’re not ugly. And you’re never going to be perfect. And holy shit, that is so okay. Jane, Casual Blasphemies (via thehopeihave, hunger-painsss) (via cultivate-solitude) (via recovering-my-soul) (via mint-greentea) (via suckmysucculent)

You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want. Kathleen Hanna  (via qoldlush)

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To live with ghosts requires solitude. Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces