October 2010
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“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
—Pablo Picasso (via thechocolatebrigade, longlivethequeen) (via melancholynotes)
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fear/ confidence
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We collect data, things, people, ideas, “profound experiences”, never penetrating any of them… But there are other times. There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
—James Carroll (via crashinglybeautiful)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
—Oscar Wilde (via laurazalenga)
melancholy notes: The roots of loneliness →
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Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun. It rained a lot in September. October had several warm, sweaty days. Aside from the weather, there was hardly anything to distinguish…
stars in still water by jonsi
put your clothes now out to dry
it’s early in the morning
the day is unfolding, ever so softly
i will always be, oh, aloud within,
it’s a never ending song that i sing alone
i am, awake, the only one awake
i see the sun, break out, it slows, no clouds
no clouds, no one out, too - only that you
don’t stop in still water
don’t stop in still water
now the sun’s in your eyes
it dries away your tears(via floralmelodies)
