La belle et la bête (Cocteau, 1946)
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wolfandfox: La belle et la bête (Cocteau, 1946)
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"It’s not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of..."
“It’s not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. It is not so difficult to comprehend why old forests and old women are viewed as not very important resources. We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. But the shadow of Wild Woman lurks still lurks behind us in our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves (via thefragrantphoto)
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves (via thefragrantphoto)
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paganblood: Sionnach
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"Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and..."
“Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.”
- (via ruedamour)
- (via ruedamour)
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colettesaintyves: Ann Carter & Simone Simon, The Curse of...
Ann Carter & Simone Simon, The Curse of the Cat People, Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, 1944.
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"He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as..."
“He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.”
- Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (via talisman)
- Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (via talisman)
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"Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone..."
“Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf.
Those with slow seeing say a non-conformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, means one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to culture.
When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessings, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (via glorfinn)
Those with slow seeing say a non-conformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, means one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to culture.
When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessings, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (via glorfinn)
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Wolfskin by Claire Pestaille, 2005Also
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"We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for..."
“We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.”
- Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (via fylgjaroadtrip)
- Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (via fylgjaroadtrip)
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"You will fall in love with someone who annoys you, whose orgasm face looks and feels pathetic...."
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- The Types of People You Will Fall in Love With In Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via tilthe)
You will fall in love with someone who annoys you, whose orgasm face looks and feels pathetic. Despite all of this, there’s something keeping you drawn to them, something that makes you want to protect them from the harsh world. What you fail to realize, however, is that you are the harsh world. You aren’t their noble protector — you are someone to be protected from but it takes a lot of dates, a lot of nights where you question whether or not you are actually a good person, for this to ever resonate with you. When it’s over and whatever love is left is put back in the fridge like a sad plate of leftovers, you will finally understand that you have the power to hurt someone. You can either hurt them or love them and it’s up to you to decide what kind of role you would like to take on in future relationships. What feels more comfortable — being the one who loves more or being the one who’s loved less?
You will fall in love with someone who’s cold and always seemingly pushing you away. When all is said and done, they will be forever known as the one person you couldn’t get to love you. Unfortunately, it will hurt and sting worse than the good ones, the ones that chopped up your meat for you and picked out an eyelash from your eye and were nice to your mother, because love often feels like a game we need to win. And when we lose, when we realize we couldn’t get what we ultimately desired from a person, it makes us feel like a failure and erases all the memories of those who loved us in the past. It’s a permanent smudge on your love resume.
You will fall in love with someone for one night and one night only. They’ll come to you when you need them and be gone in the morning when you don’t. At first, this will make you feel empty and you’ll try to convince yourself that you could’ve loved this person for longer than a night, but you can’t. Some people are just meant to make cameo appearances, some are destined to be a pithy footnote. That’s okay though. Not every person we love has to stick around. Sometimes it’s better to leave while you’re still ahead. Sometimes it’s better to leave before you get unloved.You will fall in love with the old couple down the street because to you they represent the impossible: a stable, long-lasting love. You’re trying to get someone to like you for more than ten minutes. A monogamous “never get sick of ya” love seems unfathomable. “What’s your secret, sir? Do you just say yes a lot?”
You will fall in love with smells, the good and the bad kind. You will want to wear your lovers shirt because it makes you feel close to them and you’re okay with being that PSYCHO who is legitimately sniffing their shirt in public. You will fall in love with sweat, certain perfumes, the smell of the season in which you fell in love. This particular love smells like fall. It smells like Halloween and a roaring fire and leaves and fog and mist and candy and food and family and whiskey and sex and the lint that collects on sweaters. When it ends, if it ends, you will never experience another fall without thinking of him, her, it. The memories will stick to the ground like a mound of leaves and will only dissipate when the weather drops.You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.
This is where I’m supposed to tell you that you will fall in love with The One, a person who isn’t too cold or too nice. Their “O” face is perfectly fine and they’re not afraid to show how much they love you. This person is supposed to wait for us at the end of the twentysomething road as some kind of reward for all the heartache and loneliness. We deserve them. We’ve earned this kind of love.So fine. You’re going to fall in love with The One. You’re going to fall in love with someone who will make sense beyond college or a job or a particular season. They’ll make sense forever and won’t ever want to leave you behind. I’m telling you this not because it’s true but because it NEEDS to be true. Everyone is entitled to this kind of love, so why not? Have it. It’s yours. Blow out the candles on your 30th birthday, holding their hand, and let out an exhale that’s been waiting for ten years. Do it. Now
”- The Types of People You Will Fall in Love With In Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via tilthe)
Today is my 33rd birthday, and this resonates even more now than it would have on my 30th.
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kateoplis: “I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I...
“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.” — Catherine BreillatPhoto: Otto Steinert, 1964
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"The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for..."
“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life; hold on, for the promise from the wild nature is this: after winter, spring always comes.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves (via theseagoat)
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves (via theseagoat)
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"Nature doesn’t recognize Good and Evil. Nature only recognizes balance and imbalance."
“Nature doesn’t recognize Good and Evil. Nature only recognizes balance and imbalance.”
- Walter Bishop, Fringe (via thatkindofwoman)
- Walter Bishop, Fringe (via thatkindofwoman)
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"Under your skin the moon is alive."
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"Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is..."
““Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.””
- Italo Calvino, Invisible cities
- Italo Calvino, Invisible cities
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h0odrich: aw shit get it wednesday
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