"When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love." 

The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)

(Source: quote-book)

debilitating:

(by Finntje)

"

I think probably people confuse fashion with being beautiful or being sexy or attractive. Very often people use it as a [tool], not as pleasure.

I always say sexy dressing is fantastic if it’s a choice … If you want to go out naked, I like it. But if you do it because you want to get a rich husband, no, I hate it.

" 

Miuccia Prada

"After all, the fight against entropy and decay is always going to be a losing battle, so I thought, why not make of that destructive energy something new. In the autobiographical sense, the material of artists’ lives has always been the subject of their art. The only difference here is the public’s level of identification and investment in that material. I think the story has changed because the human body is not the centre of attention any more. It is more the human condition that is taking centre stage." 

Helmut Lang

"One of the great challenges for all of us, is to put yourself into unusual situations, put yourself into unusual cultures where you don’t belong, put yourself amongst people who you don’t normally hang-out with and get out of your comfort zone culturally… I think that is very, very important … getting back on the streets, and getting an understanding of how young people think today." 

John Jay (via arreter)

(Source: brotips)

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." 

Jack Kerouac

"When you insert the key into the lock and turn it to the right, the lock opens. When you turn it to the left, it gets locked. The heart is the lock; the mind is the key. You get attachment when your mind is turned towards the world. When it is turned towards the divine, you attain liberation. It is the same lock and the same key that are responsible for bondage and liberation." 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba (via Swanfeather Songs)

(Source: quote-book)

"The things we fear are probably feared by others, and when we avoid them, we’re doing what others are doing as well. Which is why there’s a scarcity of whatever work it is we’re avoiding. And of course, scarcity often creates value. The shortcut is simple: if you’re afraid of something, of putting yourself out there, of creating a kind of connection or a promise, that’s a clue that you’re on the right track. Go, do that." 

Seth’s Blog: Fear, scarcity and value

Awesome thoughts from Seth. Do what others are afraid to do.

(via moneyisnotimportant)

"You make me feel so happy, so real. You, beautiful moment in my life. A sweet wrinkle in time. So let’s stretch this thing out. Let’s punch a hole in time, sitting in there. Two creatures content in our own little world. Silence seems so much better with you. Coldness seems so much warmer with you. I want to kiss your mouth, that loving brush, that colors my world. I want to know your taste. I want to hear your sounds. In this moment. In this moment is almost, in this moment is almost." 

Mike Milosh

"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain." 

Victor Hugo (via blacksilhouettes)

(Source: mohandasgandhi)

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." 

Erica Jong (via creatingaquietmind)

"We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories." 

Daniel Kahneman (via rememo)

"Suffering produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us." 

10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning

"Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them." 

Michael Michaelko (via stoppingandseeing)

(Source: dailygood.org)