(Source: theblackworkshop, via timetravelingscamp)
My God you are the sea. Tranquil and peaceful does your mercy and grace lap upon my as the waves crash against my ship. Wrathful as the tempest Your anger beats on the unjust. Your spirit dives deep into the unseen where my anchor lies and holds fast in your righteousness. And Your Son, Christ Jesus, is the wave that falls upon the shore, never cease, never wavering. Always there, always reaching out for me. My God you are the sea.
—Old Sailors Prayer (via timetravelingscamp)
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via summiting)
(via thenakedbrowneye)
(Source: ilikearttypegirl, via valscrapbook)
Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
(Source: noperfectdayforbananafish)
(via chasewhiteside)
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
—Jim Morrison (via letwordsdance)
(via thenakedbrowneye)
How to dress properly. Take notes gentlemen.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
—Isaac Asimov, Newsweek Magazine, January 1980 (via javierogaz)
(Source: javierogaz, via chasewhiteside)
