Sometimes we cry with everything but tears.In the end that’s all there is:love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have.. to hold on tight until the drawn
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This is a bridge in Paris. You hang locks on it with the name of you & your boyfriend/girlfriend/best-friend then throw the key into the river. So even though the friend/relationship may end, you can’t remove the lock. It stays there forever, as relevance to someone once a part of your life.
(Source: andrewbreitel, via cantliveittwice)
Human rights are always rights of individuals, based on their valid claims to conditions for their activity, but individuals bear these rights only in relation to other individuals and to social institutions.
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862), painter, and model for many of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters. Most famous for modelling for the painting of “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais, and the painting of her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, titled “Beata Beatrix”.
While posing for “Ophelia” she sat in a bath of water kept warm by lamps underneath. Once the lamps went out and the water became icy cold, but Siddal did not complain to Millais who was to engrossed in his painting to notice. She developed pneumonia because of this and her father held Millais responsible and demanded he pay for her care.
(When studying The Brotherhood last year I was taken with how beautiful Elizabeth Siddal was, and can certainly see why The Brotherhood were keen to keep her around.)
Amputation avec wigs!
The far-right image depicts a clamp, which halted bloodflow to the limb being amputated. So, you know, people didn’t bleed to death and stuff.
A General System of Surgery in Three Parts. Laurence Heister, 1745.
…it is not social conservatism, as lazy pundits call it. It is a radical theocratically-based attack on modern liberal democracy; and on modernity as a whole. It would conserve nothing. It would require massive social upheaval, for example, to criminalize all abortion or keep all gay couples from having any publicly acknowledged rights or status. Then think of trying to get women back out of the workplace or contraception banned—natural, logical steps from this way of thinking.
The soul has no culture, the soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has it’s moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can’t be stilled
It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.
