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ughpsh: Pablo Picasso photographed in his studio near Cannes,...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:09:36 -0400

Pablo Picasso photographed in his studio near Cannes, France in 1956. The Thonet rocking chair in the distance appears in many of his paintings.

Grand Central Station, NYC, 1941. The light does not stream in...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:03:31 -0400

Grand Central Station, NYC, 1941. The light does not stream in like this anymore because the buildings around the station are too tall.

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theantidote: Two Friends, Picasso,1904 (via vulturechow:)

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:30:03 -0400

theantidote:

Two Friends, Picasso,1904

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"Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead,..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:07:09 -0400

“Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you farther ahead, improve your situation, or help you find peace. It just feeds your shame, fuels your feelings of inadequacy, and ultimately, it keeps you stuck. The reality is that there is no one correct path in life. Everyone has their own unique journey. A path that’s right for someone else won’t necessarily be a path that’s right for you. And that’s okay. Your journey isn’t right or wrong, or good or bad. It’s just different. Your life isn’t meant to look like anyone else’s because you aren’t like anyone else. You’re a person all your own with a unique set of goals, obstacles, dreams, and needs. So stop comparing, and start living. You may not have ended up where you intended to go. But trust, for once, that you have ended up where you needed to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough.”

- Daniell Koepke (via 33113)

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:05:14 -0400

"In my defense, my forgotten breasts. In my defense, the hair no one brushed from my face. In my..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:34:53 -0400

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In my defense, my forgotten breasts. In my defense, the hair
no one brushed from my face. In my defense, my hips.

Months earlier, I remembered thinking that sex was a ship retreating
on the horizon. I could do nothing but shove my feet in sand.

I missed all the things loneliness taught me: eyes that follow you
crossing a room, hands that find their home on you. To be noticed. Even.

In my defense, his hands. In my defense, his arms. In my defense,
how when we just sat listening to each other breathe, he said, This is enough.

My body was a house I had closed for the winter. It shouldn’t have been
that difficult, empty as it was. Still, I stared hard as I snapped off the lights.

My body was specter which haunted me, appearing when I stripped
in the bathroom, when I crawled into empty beds, when it rained.

My body was abandoned construction, restoration scaffolding
which became permanent. My body’s unfinished became its finished.

So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on.
In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense, spring.

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- Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, “Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right” (via naisae)

"Don’t worry about where or who you’re going to be in five years. Like high school, you will look..."

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:43:53 -0500

“Don’t worry about where or who you’re going to be in five years. Like high school, you will look back and wish you had done so many things differently. Know that and do them differently now. Focus on what’s in front on you. Work on the relationship you have with yourself first. Slow down. Enjoy today. It’s okay to not know. Eat alone in restaurants. Stop trying to prove something. Seek growth instead of validation. Be heard. Have non- negotiables. Go somewhere. Pull from your Solid Self as much as you can. Process (get therapy). Don’t compartmentalize people. Love fearlessly, even if you’ve been crushed before. Eat clean. Toss your scale. Pull yourself out of the victim role. Exercise your forgiveness muscle (you will need this). Don’t be concerned with what others think of you. Accept your story. Don’t chase paper. Seek truth. Be patient. Get off your computer. Know somebody.”

- THE ANGRY THERAPIST: Twenties (via maddierose)

"Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:04:43 -0500

“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people’s response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.”

- Henri J. M. Nouwen (via 33113)

"It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people..."

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:52:36 -0500

“It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven’t left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. Ha ha, funny. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you’re not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are.

A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn’t transition well to adult life, that you’d fall right through the cracks. And look at you now. La di da, it’s happening.

Your mother, your father, your grandparents: they all look at you like you’re some prized jewel and they tell you over and over again just how lucky you are to be young and have your whole life ahead of you. “Getting old ain’t for sissies,” your father tells you wearily.

You wish they’d stop saying these things to you because all it does is fill you with guilt and panic. All it does is remind you of how much you’re not taking advantage of your youth.

You want to kiss all kinds of different people, you want to wake up in a stranger’s bed maybe once or twice just to see if it feels good to feel nothing, you want to have a group of friends that feels like a tribe, a bonafide family. You want to go from one place to the next constantly and have your weekends feel like one long epic day. You want to dance to stupid music in your stupid room and have a nice job that doesn’t get in the way of living your life too much. You want to be less scared, less anxious, and more willing. Because if you’re closed off now, you can only imagine what you’ll be like later.

Every day you vow to change some aspect of your life and every day you fail. At this point, you’re starting to question your own power as a human being. As of right now, your fears have you beat. They’re the ones that are holding your twenties hostage.

Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen. You’ve already spent enough time feeling like you’re stuck, like you’re watching your life fall through you like a fast dissolve and you’re unable to hold on to anything.

I don’t know if you ever get better. I don’t know if a person can just wake up one day and decide to be an active participant in their life. I’d like to think so. I’d like to think that people get better each and every day but that’s not really true. People get worse and it’s their stories that end up getting forgotten because we can’t stand an unhappy ending. The sick have to get better. Our normalcy depends upon it.

You have to value yourself. You have to want great things for your life. This sort of shit doesn’t happen overnight but it can and will happen if you want it.

Do you want it bad enough? Does the fear of being filled with regret in your thirties trump your fear of living today?

We shall see.

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- Ryan O’Connell, You’re Not Making The Most Of Your 20s (via vivasoul)

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:52:26 -0500

bluemoontunes: Geographer - Kites

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:43:50 -0500

bluemoontunes:

Geographer - Kites

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:39:01 -0500

some things i've realized since i last posted.

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:33:00 -0500

My family is fucking awesome. You don’t realize how much you love someone until you’re halfway around the world from them for months at a time.
Being emotional sometimes isn’t the end of the world.
I am strong and I don’t need to rely on other people to help me through difficult times. People have let me down after I’ve shared my most intimate secrets secrets with them but that’s okay because now I’ve realized that strength isn’t derived from other people, you find that within yourself. Boom revelation achieved.
But although people have disappointed me that doesn’t mean that everyone will. This is one of those things that I haven’t completely been able to live up to yet; it requires baby steps but I’ll get there. I need to let people actually see me and talk about myself without the fear of vulnerability.
It’s okay to endless amounts of pancakes if that makes you feel less homesick.
First impressions aren’t always right, neither are second ones for that matter. At least in foreign countries.
I don’t give a fuck what the people think about me anymore. The only opinion I care about are those of the people that care about me.
Be positive. Always be positive, no matter what happens. There’s no need to waste energy on negativity.
Oh and always have a smile on your face. If it doesn’t make you feel better then it’ll at least make someone else’s day a little better. So it’s a win win.
I feel like I have more to say but my second dinner of the night is beckoning and I can’t afford to be rude.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear..."

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:52:22 -0400

“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 (via delamona)

Aaron Paul photographed by Austin Hargrave.

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:51:44 -0400

Aaron Paul photographed by Austin Hargrave.

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:51:20 -0400

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

- Haruki Murakami (via beautifulramblings)

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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:38:46 -0400