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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via tune-it-up)

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“Life, for me, is a profound, a sacred, a joyous, a mysterious, a soulful dance. But it is a dance. All aspects of the self have to be lived out, like the twelve houses of the zodiac. I walk with my dream unfurled, and lose myself in my own labyrinths, and the dream unfurled carries me.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

— Krishnamurti | @wnq-philosophy (via wnq-philosophy)

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6 Types of Love

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Eros a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love

Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once

Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity

Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart

Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers

Agape selfless altruistic love; spiritual

I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

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