Verbeelding

@verbeeldend

From something towards the nothing. The emptiness of the human mind unfolded, because without the mind there would be nothing, and with a filled mind we can't see the beautiful colors around us. Touch and disappear. To quote Ayn Rand: "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

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Once a decision is made 'the ones who don’t agree practice forgiveness'

Róisín Murphy - IN SINTESI (Psychemagik Remix)

Please kiss the ashtray that is my mouth, whisper I love you against my nicotine stained lips.

Pär Grindvik - Embay

THE ARK

You must allow yourself to be intimate with your instincts

Háskólakórinn - Heyr, himnasmiður

Clubroot - Faith in her

In those days, a tattoo was still a souvenir - a keepsake to mark a journey, the love of your life, a heartbreak, a port of call. The body was like a photo album; the tattoos themselves didn’t have to be good photographs. Indeed, they may not have been very artistic or aesthetically pleasing, but they weren’t ugly - not intentionally. And the old tattoos were always sentimental; you didn’t mark yourself for life if you weren’t sentimental.

John Irving

Velveteen Rabbit - Snippet

"What is REAL?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day… “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When [someone] loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.