Strip yourself down. This is not a one-time thing. It’s going to be uncomfortable. 

You’ll move in and out of truth and peace and beauty and breakdown. 

You’ll want to run away from yourself. 

You’ll want to run toward the first thing that offers external comfort. But hold steady. 

Just like you’d want a lover to do. 

Nurture that inner fire. Stay there. 

Right there. Bring it home. 

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daniel brown

La Blouse Roumaine

foto: Bogdan Diaconeasa

foto: Bogdan Diaconeasa

matisse painting

"It will take a while before the “Sleeping Beauty’ of Matisse’s canvass will wake up to enchant the world stage, once again. 

This day will come, but in the meanwhile the princess from the “Blouse Roumaine” will keep vigil that this dream may come true, like the angel enjoined by the French Master, in his war-time diary.."

Blouse Romaine: An Anthology of contemporary, modern and classical

 Female Romanian Voices and Thought by Constantin Roman

 http://www.blouseroumaine.com/

Queen Maria and their royalties wearing la blouse romaine

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, 

and kindness from the unkind. 

I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

"I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be 
able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just 
hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says..."I love
you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town.
I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near
you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your
voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go." -
Maya Angelou

lovely details combined

monique luhillier pré fall 2013

one of my favs

Alexandru Tomescu-

"Meditation" from "Thais" by Jules Massenet