#bigness

[palatinewolfsblog]

"A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child." Pythagoras.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. Being able to travel both ways matters, and sometimes the way back into the heart of the question begins by going outward and beyond."

- Rebecca Solnit

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don’t want to look around any more: I don’t need to look around for anything.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[kamala-laxman]

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.” ― Cheryl Strayed,

[noosphe-re]

Beyond a certain scale, architecture acquires the properties of Bigness. The best reason to broach Bigness is the one given by climbers of Mount Everest  "because it is there." Bigness is ultimate architecture.

S,M,L,XL, Rem Koolhaas & Bruce Mau

[vulture-cat-child]

Day 12: Do you have more than one of the same species in your collection? Yes. Very yes. I like to see the differences in the bones that come from the life the animal led. Age, health, gender, region, and more can all have an effect on an animal's bones, leaving a story for you to unravel.

[runningfromadream]

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things