Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor (via quotespile)

You are night, my darling: night at the peak of its lunar, feminine power.
You are midnight: culminating shadow where dreams culminate, where love culminates.

Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Child of Light and Shadow,
(via 69rooms)

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash (via purplebuddhaquotes)

victorianink:
““ The most beautiful part of a man’s body I think it must be there, where the torso sits on and, into the hips, those twin delineating curves, feminine in grace, girdling the trunk, guiding the eyes downwards to their intersection, the...

victorianink:

The most beautiful part of a man’s body I think it must be there, where the torso sits on and, into the hips, those twin delineating curves, feminine in grace, girdling the trunk, guiding the eyes downwards to their intersection, the point of pleasure. Duane Michals, 1986