Focus on what is under your control

Random things. Art, Literature, Photography, Love, Life etc.

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

"The Creation Of Adam" Creazione di Adamo by Michelangelo

1508-1512

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“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

— Oscar Wilde

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“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”

— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

[ismine-allmine-allmine-deactiva]

Detail of ‘Lost in her dreams (In Träumen versunken)’ by Friedrich von Amerling (austrian, 1803 - 1887)

[charlottearthistory]

‘angels with attributes of the passion’ - simon vouet (1624)

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MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not

1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

[malnedott]

caravaggio’s hands in various paintings 🌙

[neptunesdesire]

Details: The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Bryullov - 1830/1833

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“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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“Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”

— Alex Flinn

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

"I've always liked quite people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world."

-John Green, Looking For Alaska

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“Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy, too.”

— Yogi Bhajan

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

"What I Would Tell You"

To you, love was about multitudes.

To me, Love was inordinate.

I love you, I would say.

How much? You ask.

I couldn't find the words to answer you then.

But they have found their way to me since. And this is what I would tell you.

I would blanket the world in utter darkness; I would pull back veil of light and reveal to you, a blinding crescendo of stars.

I would drain all the seven and ask you to count, one by one, every grain of sand that clings to the ocean floor.

I would tally the beat of every human heart that has echoed since the dawn of our becoming.

And as you look in awe at the sheer magnitude of my admission, I would take your hand in mine and tell you; if only you had let me, this is how much I could have loved you.

~Lang Leav~

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

Anne Magill, 1962

"Never Let Me Go"

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

Carpe Diem

car·pe di·em

/ˌkärpā ˈdēˌem/

Exclamation

Used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.

The enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future.

The Origin of Carpe Diem

This Latin phrase, which literally means "pluck the day," was used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that we should enjoy life while we can. His full injunction, "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero,” can be translated as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one,” but carpe diem alone has come to be used as shorthand for this entire idea, which is more widely known as "seize the day."

The 1989 movie Dead Poets Society introduced late-20th-century audiences to the phrase, but the sentiment has been expressed in many literatures, perhaps most famously in 16th- and 17th-century English poetry. One of the best-known examples (and an example featured prominently in Dead Poets Society) is in the first stanza of Robert Herrick's 1648 "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time":

While the sentiment has long been expressed in English, the phrase carpe diem didn't begin appearing in print in English until the early 19th century. Two centuries later, the phrase is found on mugs and T-shirts and in the names of various enterprises and organizations.

Carpe diem, a phrase that comes from the Roman poet Horace, means literally "Pluck the day", though it's usually translated as "Seize the day". A free translation might be "Enjoy yourself while you have the chance". For some people, Carpe diem serves as the closest thing to a philosophy of life as they'll ever have.

[oldfashionedcosmiclover]

100-Year-Old Photos Depict Some Of The Most Beautiful Women From All Over The World part 11

Lily Elsie (1886 – 1962), English actress and singer

Lina Cavalieri, 1874-1944 Italian operatic soprano

Lone Bright Eickemeyer, Broadway actress, photographed by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. 1912

Camille Clifford, 1885-1971 Belgian actress

Marie Doro (1882–1956)

Lehnert Landrock – Ouled Naïl Girl – Algeria – 1905

Maude Adams (1872 – 1953), American actress

Anna May Wong, 1905-1961

Maude Fealy, 1883-1971 American stage and silent film actress (as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Source)

Mary Pickford, 1892-1979 American-Canadian film actress

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100-Year-Old Photos Depict Some Of The Most Beautiful Women From All Over The World part 1

A Filipino mestiza woman in 1875

Maude Adams as Phoebe in Quality Street (1901)

Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerina 1881-1931

Silver gelatin photograph of a Malayali woman in the 1900s

Ethel Warwick (1882 – 1951), British actress

Cléo de Mérode (1875 – 1966), French dancer, circa 1903

Pretty Nose (c. 1851 – after 1952), Arapaho war chief

Carolina “La Belle” Otero, Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan, circa 1890

Miss N (Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit by Gertrude Käsebier), 1903