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“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

Hermann Hesse   (via thatkindofwoman)

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If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.”

Rick Bass

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"I look at film as closer to a painting or a piece of music; it’s an impression…an impression of character and total atmosphere…The attempt is to enlist an audience emotionally, not intellectually."

— Robert Altman

Still of Robert Altman on the set of Fool for Love (1985)

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There are two types of waiting. There’s the the waiting you do for something you know is coming, sooner or later—like waiting for the 6:28 train, or the school bus, or a party where a certain handsome boy might be. And then there’s the waiting for something you don’t know is coming. You don’t even know what it is exactly, but you’re hoping for it. You’re imagining it and living your life for it. That’s the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

Unknown (via thatkindofwoman)

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”.

Winston Churchill  (via thatkindofwoman)

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Once you decide on your occupation… you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. Never complain about your job. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success… and is the key to being regarded honorably

Jiro Ono - “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.

Haruki Murakami  (via thatkindofwoman)

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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.

John Green   (via thatkindofwoman)

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Sometimes you think...

...what the hell comes next?

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Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Matt Berninger  (via natashakills)

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Mayfair Theatre Curtain / Bank Street / Ottawa, ON. Fujifilm Finepix X100. December 2012. 

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"But there's another way, and I'll leave you with this. This is what I have found: to let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee -- and that's really hard, and I can tell you as a parent, that's excruciatingly difficult -- to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, when we're wondering, "Can I love you this much? Can I believe in this this passionately? Can I be this fierce about this?" just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, "I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive." And the last, which I think is probably the most important, is to believe that we're enough.Because when we work from a place, I believe, that says, "I'm enough," then we stop screaming and start listening, we're kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we're kinder and gentler to ourselves."

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Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 

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#camping #tents #wilderness #trees #lake

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman (via bookporn)

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I see this every. single. day. How did I get here?

#san francisco #Golden Gate #golden gate bridge #bay area #sf