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Not even a priest who proudly claims to love humanity, who lives for humanity. Do you doubt me?

Save me Brazilian catholic guilt

The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming

não fui criada em águas rasas, e sempre dei mergulhos profundos

mas vou passar a noite velejando no azul esverdeado de teus venustos olhos

pedindo aos céus que desta vez eu não me afogue

— tentativas

being insane is just a part of my charm

before sunrise (1995) // norwegian wood, haruki murakami

one of my favorite things about human physiology is the way our eyes change when we look at someone we love. our pupils dilate automatically like they do when it’s dark outside and they’re trying to let more light in. except now it’s the light of your favorite person. the edges of our eyes soften a little and they sometimes even get watery which we also can’t control. tears of joy. we tend to raise our eyebrows as if we’re trying to make our eyes bigger. trying to get a better vision and seeing all the details. we tend to blink less than usual just to make the moment last a bit longer. even if it’s just a second. or when you smile at someone with your entire face involved and your eyes just crinkle and create a sparkle in them. and it all happens so effortlessly and universally.

creative writing’s just like yeah sure i can deal with my issues i just need to cover them in several layers of metaphors first

@keuhkopussirotta / fleabag / jamie anderson / holly warburton / richard siken / mitski / aracelis girmay by @heavensghost / philip pullman

“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

— Carrie Fisher

Almost Famous behind the scenes (2000)🍒⭐️🌿

driven by a greed to succeed, nobody can stop me

Due to personal reasons, I will now be regressing back to 2014 me, so if you see me watching old Markiplier videos or listening to Badlands and Crybaby then just look the other way

the only thing you need to know about the world:

"you can't stop the love — and the rock'n'roll"

“River made a difference each day of his life. I hope his death will move others to work for a healthier, more compassionate world, so that young people will not feel drawn to numb themselves against a culture too cruel to endure, but will, instead, be able to live with joy and peace and love.” — Zoe Weil [The Animals Agenda, 1994]

Dear River, Will love you forever and a day. 💫

[•23rd August, 1970 — 31st October, 1993 • ♾]

✨it's not about career, it's about believing in something. it's about prosperity and it's about caring and emphasizing and wanting to create the best and the most true to real life✨

KEANU: I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet

RIVER: I’ll be Juliet

— Interview Magazine, November 1991

“If I didn’t think I could be a part of a movement that could influence, and be a part of helping and change, if I couldn’t help that through what I’m doing, I wouldn’t do this. But I’m seeing that through this position -in this career, and where I have these magazine interviews- I can be an example, and I think that’s important. In all the interviews I do, I say something about being vegan. I don’t want to come off as if I’m a savior. I’m only a very small part of anything, but I think it’s important to be involved. I’m interested in meditation and finding spiritual fulfillment. But for me to just go off and devote my life to monkhood in the jungle would be ultimately abandoning the world, and the consciousness would be on a selfish level. I think I can do a lot more good for this planet if I am out there." 

- River on an interview for Vegetarian Times, March 1988.

“It really upsets me that we’re trained from an early age to aspire to be the ideal man or the ideal woman. It’s prejudice, really. Many people learn to accept themselves, but others are miserable if they don’t look like Robert Redford. And they shouldn’t be. It’s oppressive. A lot of it has to do with show business. For example, I would like to see more blacks in leading men’s roles, to project a more realistic picture of who we are as a people.”

- River Phoenix

“River Phoenix was often mocked in his day. As the vegan environmentally aware actor who made careful film choices based on his personal politics, he was seen as a little wacko, an eccentric still suffering the psychological effects of growing up in the cult, Children of God. Now he seems ahead of his time. Not only that, an exemplary figure to be revered more than ever, both for his film work and his messages. […] He remains an inspiration for those of us looking for a new masculinity. This wasn’t a man set out to compromise what was in his heart and mind to fulfil any expectations of what a young man must be” — “River Phoenix remains the antidote to Toxic Masculinity”, The Book of Man, Oct 2018

“Although I can’t stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.”

— River Phoenix

“We are the last generation of human beings who will have a choice whether or not to save the earth. If we don’t do something to protect our environment, it will be too late for our children to try” — River Phoenix, 1991

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow. ❤️🌎 Joaquin Phoenix and Farm Sanctuary rescuing a baby cow and its mother from  a slaughterhouse.

PET PEEVES: War, cruelty, materialism

BELIEFS: Being good to other people, working for world peace, not eating meat

— Excerpt from a teen magazine, 1987

“It was River Phoenix who wanted his character to be gay, or to be in love with Keanu’s character. Originally the characters were both straight. River wanted there to be this affection, this love, and to have his character tell Keanu that he loved him. [smiles] Maybe he wanted to tell Keanu that…" — Gus Van Sant

“He grew up as a naive little kid saying, ‘I want to save the world’. As he got older he started to realize that it was impossible to do. Nobody can. A lot of people go nuts because they feel the pain and they want to do something about it and they can’t. I think River felt that very intensely”

— Josh Greenbaum