second-rate

You aren’t ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

Natalia Ginzburg

magical-contamination

autumn...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

— George Eliot

image by mady dooijes (that's me- taken in the netherlands- instagram)

two dangerous things….

The two most dangerous things in the world are sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

DELPOZO

Trees….

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts:

Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours.

They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them.

But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness

of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree.

He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.

— Herman Hesse, from Trees, Reflections And Poems

Andie Arthur by Silja Magg

happiness...

He held her hand. Happiness is this, he thought.

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
michael philip manheim

Once...

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant.

He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.”

So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

— Marina Abramović

Sarah Moon

longing for impossible things...

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd -

The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was;

the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.

All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

— Fernando Pessoa

Francesca Woodman - Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975 – 1978

ISH...

Impersonation, Stalking, or Harassment. Treat the community the way you’d like to be treated.

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Nadia Maria

happiness...

That's the best revenge of all is happiness.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

Chuck Palehniuk

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you'll never have...

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Northern Women in Chanel by Peter Farago

evil is like a shadow...

Evil is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light.

You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it…

You must shine light on it.

— Shakti Gawain

mady dooijes

your wounds...

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you’re not.

Paulo Coelho, Aleph  
Christian Tudose

Onward I go...

I will fight these mountains like the Irish, 

A simple man no more, onward I go.

— Rakishi, “So goes the smoke” cir. 1960
via shawn lowe

grace...

I don’t usually think of the word grace as it pertains to the physical… grace is a very private and personal thing.

It’s a shared gift; a gift of and for the spirit.

— Wendy Whelan, New York City Ballet

foolish...

The wise are wise only because they love.

And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.” 

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Lia Sáile, from Among Trees

my life...

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful- that will be my life

-Elsie de Wolfe

I've been changing my house around a little, it feels good!
image by me

it's all you've got

In the end, it's really up to you. It's your life and it's all you've got.

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ricor

three things...

In the end, only three things

matter: how much you loved,

how gently you lived, and

how gracefully you let go of

things not meant for you.

-Buddha

Alessio bolzoni

Self pity

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.” 

― Patty Duke

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Is it?

Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?

— Shirdi Sai Baba 

Linda Byrne by Marcus Tomlinson for Visionaire nº 25, 1998

fall...

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible.
But in the end, they always fall. Always.” 

― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi

Maggie Rizer photographed by Inez and Vinoodh for the Yohji Yamamoto Spring 1998 campaign

Do not spoil...

Do not spoil what you

have by desiring what

you do not have.

Remember that what

you now have was

once among the things

you only hoped for.

-epicurus

Susannah Ligouri by Tim Walker, Vogue Japan September 2012

energy of….

The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness,

which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.” 

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

The Loss of Small Detail, William Forsythe and Frankfurt Ballet 
1993, Tokyo, Photographer: Kyoji Akiba, Issey Miyake, Mark Holborn, 1996

finishing chapters...

It's always important to know when something has reached its end.

Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it;

what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” 

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

Y. Project by Yohan Serfaty, Fall/Winter 2012

Watercolor skies...

Watercolor skies

and you smiling beneath them,

waiting for my hand.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Gerhard Richter, Königstein (1987)