like a warm drink you seep into my soul

jamie cullum

source: paolo roversi for romeo gigli 1989, via +

goldaline, my dear,

we will fold and freeze together

far away from here.

there is sun and spring and green forever.

but now we move to feel for ourselves inside some stranger’s stomach.

place your body here,

let your skin begin to blend itself with mine.

neutral milk hotel 

source: norman parkison for voque uk, november 1970, via sigh and whispers

my heart wanders

pia jane bijkerk's new book my heart wanders will be available at bookstores across the country soon... i am very excited not only to own her new book in a few days time, but to meet the lovely pia herself.

here are a few dates with book launches in australia, 
make sure you check her site out for updates.

friday, april 29: sydney book launch ariel books, paddington

saturday april 30: melbourne book launch magnolia square, malvern town hall

saturday, april 30: melbourne empire vintage, albert park

saturday, may 7: brisbane book launch, milton

...

life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

khalil gibran

source: photographer fedrico cabrera, via coute que coute

a friend is one that knows you as you are,

understands where you have been, 
accepts what you have become,

and still, gently allows you to grow.

william shakespeare
source: hide and seek, voque russia april 2003, 
nick mathieson + nick livesey, christian dior, spring couture 2003, via + 

…in my dreams the world would come alive,

 becoming so captivatingly majestic, 

free and ethereal,

 that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life.

vladimir nabokov

source: sarah moon, comme des garcons, via +

...

i can't talk, i lost 6 years of images...
daniel russell hall, via +

tatiana trouvee

tatiana trouvee's  work spans drawing, painting + sculpture, often brought together in precisely-scaled architectural installations 

images: view of the exhibition "polders" in 2002 at palais de tokyo, paris (France) 

source: perrotin, via +

your capacity

your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

mahatma gandhi
source: model sui he, via iiiinspired

all you need is love is a lie

all you need is love is a lie cause

we had love but we still said goodbye

split screen sadness, john mayer 

source: meghan collison by mert alas & marcus piggott, via +

dream out loud

the only limits are the limits of our imagination.

dream up the kind of world you want to live in.

dream out loud. at high volume.

that’s what we do for a living.

u2

source: voque italia, a dreamy touch, photography solve sondsbo, via +

shadows...

life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty.

be all you can be, and let go of the past.

it is nothing but shadows.

fell by david clement-davies

source: unknown, via +

we fell in love...

we fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, 
something rare and beautiful was created. 
for me, love like that has only happened once,
 and that’s why  every minute we spent together
 has been seared in my memory.
 i’ll never forget a single moment of it.

nicholas sparks
source: anna maria urajevskaya by michelangelo di battista via fashion gone rogue

we...

we, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls.

we are weaned from our timidity

in the flush of love’s light

we dare be brave.

and suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

yet it is only love

which sets us free.

maya angelou
source: issey miyake by naoki takizawa, spring–summer 2003, via +

we have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
we’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
we build more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies then ever,
but have less communication;
we have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
these are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;
tall men but short character;
steep profits but shallow relationships.
it’s a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.

the 14th dalai lama

via +

xxx

l'oreal lips, 1986, photographer: irving penn, via + 

 a big thank you to all my new + old followers

+

boris ovini via +

let...

let my heart be still a moment + this mystery explore;

edgar allan poe

source: marie claire italia, fashion gone rouge

you can’t force love, i realized.

it’s there or it isn’t.

 if it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it.

 if it is there,

you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

richelle mead (frostbite)

source: via clever nettle

everything carries me to you...

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail

toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

pablo neruda
source: sarah moon, ten magazine, via + 

there's a change in the sea...

there's a change in the weather,

there's a change in the sea.

so from now on,

there'll be a change in me.

my walk will be different,

my talk not the same.

nothin' about me

is going to be the same.

higgins & amp; amp; overstreet, 1921

source: pic a day (thank you rick), unknown via +

miracle

the miracle is not to walk on water.

 the miracle is to walk on the green earth,

dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

 smile, breathe and go slowly.

thich nhat hanh
source: sarah moon, via +

i don’t believe in failure,
because simply by saying you’ve failed,

 you’ve admitted you attempted.

and anyone who attempts is not a failure.

those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all.

the ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait
for the world to change for them.

sarah dessen

source: photographer jean-françois lepage, via +