"...we humans go to great lengths to change ourselves and our lives when everything we really need is already within our grasp; we just fail to recognize it. It is human nature to take the long way (and the hard way) when it comes to discovering what we value, but eventually all roads lead home. Sometimes people just need to reaffirm their paths by ( Read more... )

"Some people do not understand solitude; in fact, the very idea frightens them. They equate it with drinking problems and pornographic pursuits. What's more, solitude scares them becasue it's the pad from which deep troublesome thoughts launch into consciousness, throughts they would prefer not to confront." - jane christmas, "the peele project ( Read more... )

“The past is very important to me… It can never be completely forgotten. It’s there and it won’t let you forget. It exists, whether you want it to or not, it clings to you like a shadow” - Jean Paul Lemieux ( Read more... )

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"the shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. a biography of longing. it steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. this is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. by love that closes it's mouth before calling a name" - anne ( Read more... )

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
--Albert Camus

"She, a woman of noble beauty, of classic worth, of Raphaelesque proportions, a woman created of no other, to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, entered, on a rainy November day, the office of Air France in the Sixteenth Arondissement, to buy a one way ticket to Tegel Airport, Berlin ( Read more... )

i'd put paintings by this man up as well... but i can't find any of the right ones online.

"The past is very important to me.. It can never be completely forgotten. It's there and it won't let you forget. It exists, whether you want it to or not, it clings to you like a shadow."

"What I seek is the feeling of time. I try to do it by space and ( Read more... )