“Seeing the small is called brightness; maintaining gentleness is called strength. Use this brightness to return to brightness. Don’t cling to your body’s woes. Then you can learn endurance.”
— Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 52)
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
— Don DeLillo, b. 20 November 1936
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
— Doris Lessing (b. 22 October 1919)
Things that don’t make you ‘weak’:
Maqbool. 2003. Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Something light to post late at night <3
No man has ever forgotten a good woman.
8 February, 1927
Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.
Your Virginia
My heart, which was skilled in all the arts, was baffled when it realized the difficulty of love.
―Fuzûlî, Ottoman poet
Georgia O'Keeffe
Train at Night in the Desert | 1916
Frida Kahlo’s corsets
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
— James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket
“It is not enough to be intelligent; you must also have the right character.”
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
DREW BARRYMORE.
“Portrait as a Boy, Los Angeles" - 1991. photographed by Matthew Rolston.
4ever mood.
André Kertész, Isolation Party
