realize….

 You  realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Don’t look at me, I don’t like it (ink on paper)

State of rest….

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

— Franz Kafka, from The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Photography Desiree Dolron

overwhelmed...

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.

— George Harrison

Macrocosm by moggsterb 

plans...

Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

image by mady dooijes (instagram)

soft and gentle...

Soft settle and soothe

straight through to the soul of me,

slow stir and simmer.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson 
Codie Young by Daniele + Iango for Vogue Germany April 2014

It takes strength...

It's so easy to laugh 

It’s so easy to hate 

It takes strength to be gentle and kind

— The Smiths  | I Know It’s Over

In the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy British and European lovers exchanged eye miniatures,

love tokens that captured the gaze of the recipients significant other. They were worn on the lapel as to be close to the heart.
Less than 1,000 are thought to exist, often both the owner of the piece and the subject within it are never identified.

startling...

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

— Emily Dickinson

Katrien De Blauwer|Couleur Pâle

spiral...

The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral.

You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.

— Barry H. Gillespie

Lisa Rodden

leavened heart….

I had hushed conversations with the moon

about a love that would leaven my heart.

And then you came,

latched onto my heart and burrowed deep to its seed.

A budding has sprouted out of my mouth

- a cluster of flowers dressed as your name.

— leavened heart - Tapiwa Mugabe
Guinevere van Seenus Photographed by Ben Hassett for Dior Magazine.

Never...

Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.

Gelatin Silver Love | Kazumi Kurigami | 2009