More and more I believe we should be capable to choose to surround ourselves only with the people that bring the best out of us, life is too short to care about things we hate, we should only focus and emane positive vibrations.
"You think it's cool to hate things? It's not. It's boring. Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't."
Normality is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Morticia Addams
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"Normal
is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through
traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the
job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you
leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
não me arrependo das horas que perdi a esperar-te quando ainda havia a esperança. a esperança que havia quando, a esperar-te, perdi horas de que não me arrependo.
um instante de memória de chegares é mais valioso do que jardins. do que montanhas. do que anos de tempo.
arrependo-me de ficar ao sol, de sorrir, de esquecer que devagar passam os dias. os dias passam devagar, esquecendo-se de sorrir ao sol, e de ficar onde me arrependo.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Sunsets and twilights being my favourite part of the day is no news here (see here & here & here). I had 2 weeks of unforgeattable sunsets at the beach in South France, unforgeattable indeed.
The difference between me and other people is that I’ve always demanded more from the sunsets… More spectacular colors as the sun hits the horizon. That’s perhaps my only sin.
A photograph is a moment of our time in life, a brief slice of
happening. It’s the capturing of a memory, holding far more detail than
we can ever comprehend…the way the light looked, the way it felt to be
there. Sometimes, if the photograph is good enough, you can smell the
air, feel it along your skin.
You can look at a good photograph and feel it come alive, the image
dancing into a mirage of your memories – are they real? are they fact? –
blurring the lines between what is my remembering and what is yours,
what is a dream and what is your own reality.
I’ve been here before…or have I? (...)
Jamie Beck (one of my favorite contemporary photographers
One thing we can be sure of is that we will die. Everybody will. Some people do not like the thought of this and don’t accept it. They prefer to think that death is not the end of us but that we might live on, perhaps in another life on earth, or in another place where people are rewarded or punished. But wanting something to be true is not the same as it being true. And there is no evidence to support the idea that our minds could survive the end of our bodies. What sense could we make of the things that we value – love, experiences, communication, achievements, the warmth of the sun on our face – if we were disembodied? And if life were eternal, wouldn’t it lose much of what gives it shape, structure, meaning and purpose? Think about reading a good book or eating a delicious cake. These may be great pleasures, but one of the things that makes them pleasures is that they come to an end. A book that went on and on forever and a cake that you never stopped eating would both soon lose their appeal.
Death is a natural part of life. It makes sense for us to try not to be afraid of this but instead to come to terms with it. Then we can focus on finding meaning and purpose in the here and now, making the most of the one life we know we have and helping others to do the same, choosing good over evil without the expectation of reward in some other place.
When we do die, we will live on in the work we have done and in the memories of the other people whose lives we have been part of. Our bodies will break up and become part again of the cycle of nature. The atoms that form us now will go on to form others things – trees and birds, flowers and butterflies.
Dreamy house of australian photographer Kara Rosenlund. As Caroline described it I also love "the neutral color palette and the way she uses different shades of brown to warm up the space".
