There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure.
— From THE WAVES by Virginia Woolf. Happy Birthday, Virginia! (via
readandbreathe)
➜ delacroix: Advice for my former teenage self:
delacroix:
- It’s a waste of your time to worry about what people think of you. There will always be haters, and it’s rarely about you and even more rarely your problem. Let them hate.
- We create our own realities; you can do absolutely anything you want to. Define success for yourself, make your own…
“Cause sometimes you need to remember.
16 Golden Globe Must-Reads
randomhouse:

The 69th Golden Globes ceremony airs Sunday, January 15 – and adaptations are taking center stage! Check out this list of titles that made it to screen and have since received a nod from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Strangers On The Shore.
It makes no sense to return
to the ocean without warning -
it does not know you return
or even that you were away,
and the water is so busy
with all its blue business
that arrivals go unrealized.
The waves keep up their song
and although the sea has many hands,
many mouths and many kisses,
no hand reaches out to you;
no mouth kisses you;
and you soon must realize
what a feeble thing you are.
I am reading “On The Blue Shore of Silence” by Pablo Neruda, one of my favourite authors. And it is nothing short of beautiful. It’s all about Pablo’s love for the sea and all its “blue business”. It’s so beautiful that after reading this:

& now I’m reading THIS:

I am happy in this moment.