 | "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."— Mark Twain |  |
- LORENA -
I'm still as clear and fluid as you were time ago, but now I start to understand how your scars and rigidity is the only path to become a gem.
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what is inside, is sometimes a secret language
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| "With an apple I will astonish Paris.”— Paul Cezanne | |
- LORENA -
it all depends on how you tell a story
| - DAPHNE -
i'll take whatever is left over and shine.
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| "Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”— Paramahansa Yogananda | |
- LORENA -
I remember as a child waiting with great excitement for the lunchbreak at school so I could collect soda caps and turn them into the most fantastic stacking rings.
| - DAPHNE -
it can be as simple as you want it to be, even though the same thing can look very difficult.
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| In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.”— Maurois, Andre | |
- LORENA -
Astonishment a a result of seeing another possible outcome compared from a personal point of view
| - DAPHNE -
little things surprise us and we can be astonished by something we didn't expect / a material that behaves in a different way we would imagine.
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| "We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”— George Bernard Shaw | |
- LORENA -
Shameful thing to surrender ourselves to the dull and rigid world expectations.
| - DAPHNE -
we can own it all, and still have nothing. our expectations buried int the minds of others. we are ashamed to show, and we are ashamed to hide.
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| "I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”— Kathryn Stockett, The Help | |
- LORENA -
How sad is a white canvas, a material meant to scream out loud but that was left muted.
| - DAPHNE -
carefully placed silver beads hold together by a lock that can just as easily fall apart and scatter the shimmers all over the floor.
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| "Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.” — Seneca | |
- LORENA - A softer boundary.
| - DAPHNE -
caught between two ends, bridled.
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| "Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
- LORENA -
Shame... oppressive, stifling and backbiting
| - DAPHNE -
some things can grab us and hold us. they can be so strong that we can loose control over ourself, leaving the inevitable.
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| "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” — Anais Nin | |
- LORENA - A sunny day with a fresh breeze always makes me smile | - DAPHNE - a perfect day ended with a perfect drink on a beautiful balcony |
| "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” — Khalil Gibran | |
- LORENA - Joy when doing something can be the difference between finding solutions or getting lost while trying. | - DAPHNE - getting off the beaten track, or following the road chosen, there will always be different roads leading to where you wanna go. |
| "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.” — Audrey Hepburn | |
- LORENA - Links in different colors and textures. At first sight the brightest links might catch your eye, but it would be impossible to appreciate them without the dull and harsh ones supporting and highlighting them. | - DAPHNE - everything is impermanent, memory is a consistent but ever changing thing. it connects, it holds, but it sometimes tangles up. |
| "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things unfold according to our plans.” — Marianne Williamson (A Woman's Worth) | |
- LORENA - Control what you can, and find beauty in what you cannot. | - DAPHNE - It will unfold when it is needed |
| "The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.” — Suzanne Collins (Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | |
- LORENA - The first hints of moss, the tiny green sprouts from what looked like hopeless branches buried in snow, is without doubt encouraging. | - DAPHNE - the delicateness of a single flower, standing tall and strong by itself. braving the unpredictable weather alone, it is fierce about its vulnerability |