The Technicolor Snail Gazette

Recall your thoughts inward, and if while contemplating yourself, you do not perceive yourself beautiful, imitate the statuary; who when he desires a beautiful statue cuts away what is superfluous, smooths and polishes what is rough, and never desists until he has given it all the beauty his art is able to effect. In this manner must you proceed, by lopping what is luxuriant, directing what is oblique, and, by purgation, illustrating what is obscure, and thus continue to polish and beautify your statue until the divine splendour of Virtue shines upon you, and Temperance seated in pure and holy majesty rises to your view.

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—	Plotinus \| An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)

caritasings:

“I know the answer!”

Most of the time your professional life is like a hamster wheel of resume or C.V. padding: You avoid all possibility of failure while maximizing the odds of success in order to ensure your achievement graph climbs up and up and up.

Inevitably, that approach starts to extend to your personal life too.

So you run… but you won’t enter a race because you don’t want to finish at the back of the pack. You sing… but you won’t share a mic in a friend’s band because you’re no Adele. You’ll sponsor the employee softball team but you won’t play because you’re not very good.

Personally and professionally, you feel compelled to maintain your all-knowing, all-achieving, all conquering image.

And you’re not a person. You’re a resume.

Stop trying to seem perfect. Accept your faults. Make mistakes. Hang yourself out there. Try and fail.

Then be gracious when you fail.

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—	Jeff Haden, 6 Habits of Truly Memorable People (via asitshould)

lojo1815:

halfricandiva90:

skysaredoorwayshome:

She has
piano notes carved in-
to her hips, because
you
wrapped
your
arms
around
her
waist,
and
bled
rhythms
on her
neck every
time she
played
Now every
key feels like it is carved
from your teeth, and her finger-
tips carry their marks in curved moon
scars like crescents. Your ghost
has stopped echoing on
her neck, but never
the keys.

this is so extremely cool :O

doctorwatson:

“You’ve turned out to be the first doctor ever actually to make a difference in my life.”

The Misadventures of Dr. John H. Watson