very is lazy

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. 

—Dead Poets Society

pure mind

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

-buddah

saw this on refuse to label..a truly inspiring blog

ethics

fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."

-the alchemist by paulo coelho

thank you zooey

Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.

— Zooey Deschanel 

sapiosexual

so there is a word for that...

I Will Wait

Sometimes you're just waiting for the right song to come out and out your feelings to words. I'm done waiting.

I Will Wait is Mumford & Son's first single released off their new album Babel that hits stores September 24th. 

Raising Children

As we get older we start to contemplate children and parenting. It still seems like a scary thought to me but after reading this article by Madeline Levine in the Sunday New York Times, I want to remember this:

"One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for."

Click here to read the whole article.

naturally curly

hm.

Until We Bleed

Music vs Lyrics

"When you're happy, you enjoy the music.

But when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

-Frank Ocean 

The Answer

Discovered another beautiful blog called Pennyweight and found this quote:

"I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future you will gradually, without even noticing, live your way into the answer."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

Confusing Painting

"Somersaulting towards sleep my mind tumbles with wonderful visions"

This is a painting my friend found at a thrift store in the hamptons. Took us forever to figure it out but we finally did.

Oh yogi tea...

I'm not sure I have any words..