no trade for lies

I'll wrap my hands around your neck so tight with love, love.

A thousand times I tempted fate.
A thousand times I played this game.
A thousand times that I have said today, today, today.

I've been up in the air, lost in the night.
I wouldn't trade an eye for your lies.
Your lust for my life.
Is this the end, hey?

[thanks Jared!]

on the treasures deep within a dark forest

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

Friedrich Nietzsche”

[Rivi Madison by David Arran]

on the ocean and calmness

“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.”

— Meditation, Nayyirah Waheed

on facing oneself

"To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. A spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence."

Karen Horney M.D., Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis (1945)

on conversation

"I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, life, anything, and everything."

[Goddess of Depression by Victor Nazarenko]

on sweetness

“I’m very interested in emotions like sweetness, which have no place in the pantheon of educated concerns, and yet are very important to me. Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere—and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.”

Alain de Botton

[Ph: Tim Walker obviously]