1. In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself.
    Marcel Proust (via tmblg)
  2. Sometimes the past is something you just can’t let go of. And sometimes the past is something we’ll do anything to forget. And sometimes we learn something new about the past that changes everything we know about the present.
    Grey’s Anatomy (via littlemiss)
  3. The only difference from a hobby photographer and a professional photographer is one of these people tells his friends at a party that he sometimes picks up a camera, the other tells his friends that he’s available for hire. A professional pushes himself as a professional, without regard to what came before.
    Everett Bogue on making that leap with your photography. It’s all in the mindset. (via jorgeq)
  4. What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
    Miuccia Prada (via modelavie)
  5. Failure is always the best way to learn.
    Kings of Convenience
  6. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
    Billy Wilder (via littlemiss) (via papertissue)
  7. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
    Albert Einstein (via tmblg)
  8. Bros don’t let bros watch Sandra Bullock movies. Except “Speed”. That movie was awesome.
    Barney Stinson
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