To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh (via riversawaken)
Charles Dana Gibson-The Weaker Sex VII♡
Excavation of the Sphinx, 1850s. Follow for more 1800s nostalgia.
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WUTB..♡
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) dir. Blake Edwards
Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.
Pablo Picasso (via goodreadss)
Look not only with the eyes..
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Evening dress (detail), 1925-28
From the Cincinnati Art Museum via Art Hopper
The moon shone down on everything with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses.
Franz Kafka, The Trial (via ontheedgeofdarkness)