"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool."

- Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind) 

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #281 by Tyler Knott Gregson

R.I.P to the victims who were so cruelly taken from us today in Connecticut. We lost twenty children and seven adults today. Forever remembered.

"

A clementine
Of inclement climate
Grows tart.

A crocus
Too stoic to open,
Won’t.

Like an oyster
That cloisters a spoil of pearls,
Untouched—

The heart that’s had
Enough
Stays shut.

"

- Poem—Jill Alexander Essbaum (via a-rith-metic) 

“Thank you for…making me feel good about myself.”

At first, I didn’t get why Shashi rejected Laurent’s advances. Considering her husband took her for granted, I thought she would crave Laurent’s affection. But I realize her devotion to her family was stronger. She understood that they loved her despite belittling her at times. The final scene in which she revealed that she learned English and her family was in tears was incredibly touching and fulfilling.  I can’t forget to mention how much I loved to see a French man in a positive supporting role. 

jenzig:

1x18 → Drone (Part 4)

A Moth Eaten Musical Brocade: how to decode a person with an anxiety disorder

spinarosa:

things we are trying to do all the time:

  1. be safe

things we can’t help but do all the time:

  1. second-guess ourselves
  2. behave impulsively and reactively
  3. take everything personally
  4. worry
  5. worry
  6. worry
  7. have difficulty accepting compliments
  8. have difficulty reciprocating…

"The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking moment, alert. The gulf between what you are with others and what you are alone. The vertigo and the constant hunger to be exposed, to be seen through, perhaps even wiped out. Every inflection and every gesture a lie, every smile a grimace. Suicide? No, too vulgar. But you can refuse to move, refuse to talk, so that you don’t have to lie. You can shut yourself in. Then you needn’t play any parts or make wrong gestures. Or so you thought. But reality is diabolical. Your hiding place isn’t watertight. Life trickles in from the outside, and you’re forced to react. No one asks if it is true or false, if you’re genuine or just a sham."

- Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966) 

tastefullyoffensive:

[morketid]

"When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs, who passed away a year ago today, on the secret of life in 46 seconds (via explore-blog) 

Don’t let the title fool you. This is ace.

"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."

- William Faulkner (via 13neighbors) 

lazyteen:

Anna Karina in Bande À Part (1964)