Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
— Katherine Mansfield (via aslovelyasatree)
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The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
— Auguste Rodin (1840–1917, France)
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The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber.
— Charles Levin (via desirenoir)
There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.
— Brian Setzer (via desirenoir)
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
— ― Tom Robbins (via gene-how)
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
— Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)
Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
— Antonio Machado (via lyssahumana)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best.
— Henry Van Dyke (via lyssahumana)
You need the sort of facilities where you can have a cuppa tea and wander around the garden and then come in and do whatever you have to do, instead of walking into a studio… down a flight of steps into fluorescent lights and opening up a big door that’s soundproof and there’s acoustic tiles everywhere.
— Jimmy Page on Headley Grange. From NME, 1971 (via fuckyeahzeppelin)
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir (via lyssahumana)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
— Oscar Wilde (via lyssahumana)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
— Louis Pasteur (via lyssahumana)
break wild roses, scatter them over her.
The thorns between us sting like love’s pain.
Her flesh, bitter and salt to my tongue,
I taste with endless kisses and taste again
Elsa Gidlow
1898-1986 — (via slightlysinfulone)
The thorns between us sting like love’s pain.
Her flesh, bitter and salt to my tongue,
I taste with endless kisses and taste again
Elsa Gidlow
1898-1986 — (via slightlysinfulone)
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Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… – Joss Whedon
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