PERFECTION

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. -William Faulkner

[theleoisallinthemind]

Zhong Lin

[vainaja]

[thoughtkick]

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

— Eleanor Brown

[newloverofbeauty]

Stephen Barker:  Night Swimming. NYC   (1994)   ©thenewyorker

[jacindaelena]

Ocean Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, late 1950s

Hardwicke Knight photographer. Copied from 35mm Kodachrome slide

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The Pocketbook of Love  Mouna Kalla-Sacranie (2016)

This is a handmade, hand-bound, handbook, made with the intention of capturing the essence of what love - in all its many forms - can feel like. The idea for this handbook came to me a few months ago, when I came across this post in which by poet/writer Naveed Khan ( @navk​ ) was asked to describe love - without using the word love. I was so moved after reading his descriptions, I felt compelled to ask him if he would allow me to illustrate his words. He said yes, and so the Pocketbook of Love was born.

He broke his definition of love into the following six pairs which constitute the ‘chapters’ of this book:

1. warmth and luminescence 2. comfort and compassion 3. trust and empathy 4. support and security 5. passion and affection 6. nostalgia and longing.

To see each page in more detail, click here 

[unforgetable-words]

“Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself”

[theendlesswishofperfection]

[lonelywoodland]

[m-nf]

Being alone really makes you realize a lot of shit

[unsinnlos]

[aperiodofsoftness]

Gaëtan Delalande

[fernand0adnan]

[michalinamurawska]

[quotemadness]

I am the whole world of my accumulated emotional experience; vast areas of which probably remain unexplored.

George Lamming (via quotemadness)

[theendlesswishofperfection]

beautiful Q by @ameliealternate (on Instagram) 

[heartsnmagic]