'But Horst's style was never one for everyday life: it was reserved for the world of dreams, escapism and expectation. And the fantasy lingers in time, frozen in this image. It is not merely a space, a bedroom, a dressing room - nor even a balcony, as there is no sky in the background. The woman's back seems to radiate in the silk corset as she balances on a wooden balustrade that has been transformed into precious marble with lighting. She is an enigma. What she has done or is about to do, whether getting dressed or undressed, nobody knows. Horst remained silent.'
'The night suggests, it does not show.' - Brassai
- Both from Abrams PhotoBox
'The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.'
-- Henry David Thoreau
'Lugh is a Celtic sun god of harvest time whose name means "the shining one." His Celtic festival, called Lughnasa, is celebrated worldwide at the end of every summer. Legend says that Lugh was renowned as a master of many crafts including art, poetry, and healing. Call upon Lugh to help with mastering anything you're learning, as well as for enjoying bountiful harvests of abundance.'
-- Doreen Virtue
'Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.'
-- Russell Baker
'This can't be true, but I remember it: sparks slowly filling a dark screen. Someone had switched on my eyes.'
-- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
'I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so - this has always been my dream - so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.'
-- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
'Growing up isn't about getting serious or giving up what you enjoy. Becoming an adult is about becoming a super-child.'
'Don't be afraid to be a fool. A smart person realizes that we're all fools - no one knows what's really going on.'
'There's absolutely no reason why today can't be the greatest day we've ever had.'
'Dreams come true if you believe that dreams come true.'
"Think about what you love. Forget about what you hate.'
- 101 Party Tips from Andrew W.K. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bfeld/101-party-tips-from-andrew-wk
'Nineteenth-century English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote a series of sensual sonnets inspired by his relationship with his wife Elizabeth. Before he could publish them, Elizabeth died. He was so distraught he placed the only copy of his manuscript in the grave with her. Years later, though, he decided the love poems were too good to consign forever to the oblivion of the dirt. He had the coffin disinterred and recovered his work.
Draw inspiration from Rossetti's change of heart. Reclaim riches you once abandoned or left for dead.'
-- Rob Brezsny
'I'm not trying to counsel any of you
to do anything really special
except to dare to think,
and to dare to go with the truth,
and to dare to really love completely.'
-- R. Buckminster Fuller via Whiskey River
'It's never too late to be who you might have been.'
-- George Eliot
'Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it.'
-- Henry Rollins
'Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for later...give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.'
- Annie Dillard
'Myth imparts a structure to space and time; myth weaves a world into being. According to the perspective of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, the structure of myth is buried deep in hidden processes of the psyche, and this structure recurs universally in individuals and across all human societies. From his own dreams, cross-cultural studies, and the material provided by his patients, Jung developed the theory of a "collective unconscious." a repository of myth, symbol, and archetype that emanates from a source beyond the individual mind. Jung described the archetypes of the collective unconscious as a "spontaneous phenomena which are not subject to our will, and we are therefore justified in ascribing to them a certain autonomy." A mythological or archetypal complex... ...is, from this Jungian perspective, ultimately a psychic event that can take material manifestation, like a collective dream coming to life.'
-- Daniel Pinchbeck
'It's as if we are sitting at the very tip of the fine hairs in the white rabbit's fur.' -- Jostein Gaardner, Sophie's World
