She's Strange & She's Beautiful.

effulgent - (adj.) radiant Charismatic asshole who speaks fluent sarcasm. Normal, mediocre & average are foreign terms.

[requiemforthepast]

“I remember that moment because, if I am honest, I have them so seldom. I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart’s desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.”

— Tana French, In the Woods (via fables-of-the-reconstruction)

[aspiritualwarrior]

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotised by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realise that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”

— Alan Watts

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

—

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[clrplst]

[definitelydope]

(by Matt Lief Anderson)

[michalinamurawska]

[manufactoriel]

Tiebele, Burkina Faso (2011) by Bruno Barbey

[theclassyissue]

[horrorandglamour]

Thomas Prior

[lsleofskye]

Sri Lanka

[fohk]

[morethanphotography]

[weltenwellen]

Wislawa Szymborska, from “The Century’s Decline”, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

[quotemadness]

“They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

[nobrashfestivity]

Joost Schmidt, Detail from Buch und Werbekunst no. 7, 1926

[liliuskatherinius]

Illustration by Daniel Horowitz

[hyperbanal]

“Every day millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bit more control over their lives or try a new and more effective antidepressant drug. In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human.”

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind