amberjax

a style journal, photographs, music, discoveries, brainwaves, etc.

[bugs-inamber]

It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

[jazminedior]

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus (via skeletales)

[the-night-picture-collector]

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

Albert Camus, The Stranger

[warrensebastian]

[emotional-algebra]

“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”

Thomas Merton (via emotional-algebra)

[childmagazine]

[bienenkiste]

[isomorphismes]

from Which Differential Equations are Easy to Solve? by John Starrett

[halogenation-blog]

[gentlemansessentials]

[theindivisual]

I don’t have talent, I have tenacity. I have discipline, I have focus. And I know without any delusion, where I come from and where I can go back to.

Henry Rollins (via youngfolksociety)

[birdasaurus]

[rachaelxwang]

[julia-wanders]

[atomos]

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.

Gary Provost

[theblackworkshop]

[kevc]