“Past-the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future - the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe-safe for today! …Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. … Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. … The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. … The future is today. …There is no tomorrow. The day of man’s salvation is now. Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries dog the steps of a man who is anxious about the future.”— From “How To Stop Worrying And Start Living” by Dale Carnegie
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“Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”— Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger
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Favorite scene from Agnes Varda’s documentary, Gleaners and I. I would love to meet Agnes in person.
am i okay? everything is allll okay!! I AM A
S - sick of dealing with my own shit
C - congratulating myself for withstanding this humanity
O - old fashioned daily dose of melancholia
R - ready to remove everyone from my life again
P - poisoned by people
I- isolating intentionally so i dont have to explain myself
O- obsessing about something destructive again
Alison Boodson, from “I Do Not Want to be Your Weeping Woman,” wr. c. 1944
“A quick and easy way to check to see if you have a pure heart is seeing how readily willing you are to give a compliment to others. If your first instinct when you see something nice or hear about the success of someone you feel constricted then know you have jealousy in your heart. If you genuinely feel happy for the other person and you feel secure with yourself it will be very easy to happily give a compliment. If you see traces of jealousy in your heart, train yourself to be content by realizing that everything is portioned with great wisdom. No one is going to take anything away from you that was meant for you. Realize the wisdom in the distribution of wealth, knowledge, beauty, and success. This will ease your heart, prevent you from eating yourself up and allow you to enjoy the beauty & success of others while feeling secure within.”
Wallachian sheep - by Ulrich Iffland
Lucien Hervé (French, 1910–2007)
Intérieur chez Matisse, 1949 , 1949
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”— Judith Lewis Herman