Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1632-1638, three versions of Landscape with a Rainbow
(via renaissance-art)
as if i didn’t know that, as if i didn’t know my own bed, as if i never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via z-philosophy)
“No! I tried to settle bets with my own soul
Bless my lips for the first time before you don’t
Gripping to the last touch of your hand I grow to loathe
Hope that you remember just how far I’ll go
I’ll spend the rest of my life wishing I’m enough”
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”— Buddha
“Not being birds, we seek our own windpatterns, fashion the lute, discover language.”— Ellen Bryant Voigt, from “Dialogue: Poetics,” Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W. W. Norton Company, 2007)
“Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don’t bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.”—
Mooji
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“This is the kind of Friend You are - Without making me realize My soul’s anguished history, You slip into my house at night, And while I am sleeping, You silently carry off All my suffering and sordid past In Your beautiful Hands.”— Hafiz
(via ecmshock)
And whatever happens next… Happens next.
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.
The difficulties we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
Epictetus
(via thatwhichdoesnotsuffer)
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.