Yup. Just you and the photographer. Man-o e Man-o.
some walks you have to take alone. by ahhhlicia on Flickr.
(via unordinarymind)
Recall your thoughts inward, and if while contemplating yourself, you do not perceive yourself beautiful, imitate the statuary; who when he desires a beautiful statue cuts away what is superfluous, smooths and polishes what is rough, and never desists until he has given it all the beauty his art is able to effect. In this manner must you proceed, by lopping what is luxuriant, directing what is oblique, and, by purgation, illustrating what is obscure, and thus continue to polish and beautify your statue until the divine splendour of Virtue shines upon you, and Temperance seated in pure and holy majesty rises to your view.
Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)
(via quote-book)
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.
Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via 33113)
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Most importantly, if you can at all avoid it, don’t be normal. Strive, burn and do everything you can to avoid being the industry standard. Even the highest industry standard. Be greater than anything anyone else has ever dreamed of you. Don’t settle for pats on the back, salary increases, a nod-and-a-smile. Instead, rage against the tepidness of the mundane with every fiber of whatever makes you, you. Change this place.
I Wrote This For You: The Defiance Of The Different (via kari-shma)
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius (via thelittlephilosopher)
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That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
John Milton, 1644
Areopagitica
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins (via kari-shma)
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