May 27, 2012
"As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep…feel it all – look around you- all of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love."

— Amelia Olson (via sassyfeminist)

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May 27, 2012

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May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012
"‘I love you,’ she whispered, ‘only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream…’"

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening (via wrists)

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May 24, 2012

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May 24, 2012
"Recall your thoughts inward, and if while contemplating yourself, you do not perceive yourself beautiful, imitate the statuary; who when he desires a beautiful statue cuts away what is superfluous, smooths and polishes what is rough, and never desists until he has given it all the beauty his art is able to effect. In this manner must you proceed, by lopping what is luxuriant, directing what is oblique, and, by purgation, illustrating what is obscure, and thus continue to polish and beautify your statue until the divine splendour of Virtue shines upon you, and Temperance seated in pure and holy majesty rises to your view."

Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)

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May 24, 2012
"Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via helplesslyamazed)

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