Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)

22nd May with 5,203 notes
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The Pragmatic Artist: Life lessons you can't buy - the circus comes to town ↘

annalidstone:

It has become annoyingly commonplace to hear about cuts to arts funding, especially in schools, as if arts-training is a quaint luxury that is fun and everything but bears no relationship to the real world and has no bearing on either culture or education. It certainly has nothing to do with our…

15th May with 1 note
Take a stand; Live an Authentic Life

— Anna Lidstone

14th May with 0 notes
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

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Joseph Campbell

Ditto!

14th May with 0 notes

fuckyeahlove:

The best kind of love, be it with friends or lovers, is the kind that sneaks up on you so that one day over a cup of tea you realise that someone has become not just important to you but a part of your being.

13th May with 8 notes
Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away

— Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)

13th May with 5,071 notes
psychology notes.: Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford... ↘

psychotherapy:

Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford (Slate)

Slate: One of the striking things about your more recent material is how you engage with questions of mental health in a way that’s serious and thoughtful as well as really funny. There’s so much…

12th May with 268 notes
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

— Salman Rushdie (via kari-shma)

12th May with 4,695 notes
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)

12th May with 1,619 notes