If two points are destined to touch, the universe will always find a way to make the connection. Even when all hope seems lost, certain ties cannot be broken. They define who we are.. And who we can become. Across space, across time, along paths we cannot predict, nature always finds a way. — Jake Bohm, Touch (via bmyinspiration)
The reason we struggle with insecurity is….

The reason we struggle with insecurity is….

~ Jesse Jackson

~ Jesse Jackson

Adversity makes us strong and wise. – Pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser. Be grateful for your past because it helped shape who you are. And thank the past for a better future. Live for today, learn from yesterday, and hope for tomorrow. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.  http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/03/22/18-truths-to-start-telling-yourself/ 

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Iris paintings by Marc Quinn

No words. Photo courtesy of @fieldproducer

No words. Photo courtesy of @fieldproducer

All that survives after our death are publications and people. So look carefully after the words you write, the thoughts and publications you create, and how you love others. For these are the only things that will remain. Susan Niebur @whymommy, the 39 year old astrophysicist, mother, partner, daughter, sister & friend, passed away this week after a 5 year battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer, RIP.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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Raining in Tokyo

Raining in Tokyo

Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. — Richard Nixon in a speech to the assembled White House staff before his final departure from the White House as President of the United States. (via deployerlalouette)

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Do it, well go on, DO IT! “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you DIDN’T do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain 

Do it, well go on, DO IT! “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you DIDN’T do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain 

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. 

William Ernest Henley