The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza (via fyp-psychology)
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Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
One must say simply what one felt.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via blackshivers)
There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course your heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.
Hugh Laurie (via merelyn)
It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — and celebrate your struggle.
Reasons to move away from a space: there’s no need to stay—I’ve left something there, outside, that used to be here, inside—I’ve left something there that can grow, develop, on its own.
Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017)
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
William Blake (via divine-despair)
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
1. You must let the pain visit.
2. You must allow it teach you
3. You must not allow it overstay.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo, three routes to healing (via thatkindofwoman)
Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?
Acetylene Eyes 