close your eyes before it hits the ground
(Source: burning-soul)
close your eyes before it hits the ground
(Source: burning-soul)
| Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): | The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start. |
| Yuanfen (Chinese): | A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends. |
| Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): | The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair. |
| Retrouvailles (French): | The happiness of meeting again after a long time. |
| Ilunga (Bantu): | A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time. |
| La Douleur Exquise (French): | The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. |
| Koi No Yokan (Japanese): | The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love. |
| Ya’aburnee (Arabic): | “You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them. |
| Forelsket (Norwegian): | The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love. |
| Saudade (Portuguese): | The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist." |
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cover the middle and you go faster, cover the outside and you go slower
(Source: unexplainedcinema)