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“The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because their shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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“Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.”

— Marcus Aurelius (via carlosreynolds)

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Anders Anderson-Lundby - A Busy Town In Moonlight

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Axel Jungstedt (1859-1933) - Boy with apple, oil on canvas, 101 x 86 cm. 1882.

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“a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.”

— Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation

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Ashden’s Walk on Møn (Derek Jarman, 1973, available here) “In all home movies there is a longing for paradise.” -Derek Jarman

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"An honest film, like an honest life, makes just enough sense on the surface to survive in a largely idiotic world, while reaming free and complicated and original underneath."

- Derek Jarman

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Ron Smothermon

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''This movie makes losing your job seem like a cancer diagnosis. Whoever takes daily life that's seriously is screwed anyway.''

(on the hr firing scene of margin call)

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thenaturalistmelb

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“Stop giving energy to those who put you last on their list.”

— Unknown

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“Two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”

— Daniel Kahneman

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“Don’t worry when I argue with you. Worry when I stop - for that means there’s nothing left to fight for.”

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Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

don’t worry when i oppose you. worry when i seem to obey, for that means the real war has begun, and i assure you that it will be an invisibly bloody one.

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“I’m not heartless, I’ve just learned how to use my heart less.”

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Zoe Leonard’s I Want A President, 1992 (via here)