"If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

-Roald Dahl 

{via embracing trees}

{by katie vernon}

{via the loveliest}

{by c86}

{by photobonnie}

{via ordinary finds}

{via rue magazine}

[turned my apartment into a painty party with miss kim orr on saturday night]

{via vogue}

{via rue magazine}

{via The New Yorker}

Shakespeare's Writer's Block

{via seesaw designs}

{by allison schulnik}

{source}

{via james chapman}

"the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

-joseph campbell

{via karishma}

{via this is glamorous}

{via Love and Peace or Else}

"I leave for New York City tonight to see it for the first time and I feel like I'm revisiting a beautiful lucid dream I had as a kid. Can you feel nostalgia for a place you've never been before?"

-Jake

{via National Geographic}

Never Run Out Of Books To Read.

"There’s so much, you know. I only have one rule when it comes to fiction: I don’t read writers that are worse than me. And that leaves so much to read. I’ll never run out of books. For a fiction writer, that can be the most depressing thing to contemplate. You go to the new fiction table and you just want to kill yourself. You’ve never heard of any of these books, they all look great, and how is anyone going to come across my novel in this sea of fiction that’s being generated? But as a reader it’s just such an awesome thought: you’ll never run out of books to read."

— Ayelet Waldman, author of multiple novels including Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, lays out her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire.

{via The Atlantic}

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention." -Conan O'Brien

Paris Air Show, 1909

{via final boss form}

The Agony & Ecstacy of Ideas.

{via brain pickings}

{via photojojo!}

Justin Peck and Janie Taylor, The Block Magazine from Justin Peck on Vimeo.

{via jeana sohn}

So Ready For Summer.

{via frolic!}

{via my modern met}

Bride In Havana.

{via National Geographic}

No-No Words.

{via A Cup of Jo}

Peonies!

{via this is glamorous}

{via jillian tamaki}

{via mimi yip}

Vintage Romance.

{via The Sartorialist}

All Is Well.

When you see a photo like this, what is there to really worry about in the world?

{via National Geographic}

{via Esther Carrera}

{via oh joy!}

Summer's On Its Way.

{via Fifi Lapin}

{via Large Size Paintings}

"To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul."

-Louise L. Hay

{via homerun ballerina}

Pop.

{by Atlantic-Pacific}

{via the infinite fragmented datawaves of oxane}

{via La Dolce Vita}

{via hitRECord & attileerecord}

Well. This looks interesting.

{via wit + delight}

{by melissa shook}

Beginners.

Holy cow, this movie looks awesome.

{via lace & tea}

Sweet Dips.

{via oh joy!}

{via +GoldRush+}

{via Where the Lovely Things Are}

"I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things. But I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. Follow your passion, follow your heart, and the things you need will come."

-Elizabeth Taylor

You Are A Tourist.

{photo by Roman Lysenko via A Cup of Jo}

{by rosie hardy}