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“Grief is a swallow,’ he said. ‘One day you wake up and you think it’s gone, but it’s only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”

— Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Bloomsbury Publishing; September 24, 2019) 

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“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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Outside, Michal Rovner, 1991, MoMA: Photography

Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill Size: 19 5/16 × 18 7/8" (49.1 × 48 cm) Medium: Chromogenic color print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/86048

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“I have come to realise it doesn’t make much sense to ponder the meaning of life; that it is a question induced by melancholy; that an answer is not really what we are looking for. Does it not disappear the minute we find joy again? Who, when finally seized by a great desire to love, to dance, to work, still wonders: what is the meaning of life?”

— Belinda Cannone, Petit éloge de l'embrassement

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What a blessing to be moved by anything at all

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“Love, that is the pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang […] No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.”

— Walt Whitman, from “The Mystic Trumpeter”, Leaves of Grass

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Erwin Rudolf Weiss, The Kiss, 1898

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Jan Mácha (1926  –  1984)

Karlov most v noci

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Summer evenings at Godrevy, 2017

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“(…) my own sunset-skinned heart waiting to be held and peeled,”

— The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me, ‘Self-Portrait as Mango’ by Tarfia Faizullah (edited by Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo) 

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Letting go is a light-footed dance on the ground of eternity. With time, the lowest leaps turn heavy and the highest airs bland.

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Is there something you don't want to "manage"? Maybe it feels wrong to use Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" for a startup event or to incorporate your first love experience into your Ted Talk. Maybe it just doesn't feel right to talk out loud in a Starbucks about vision, purpose, community, love, and happiness. Aren't some things too personal, too sacred to be "managed"? What's left on the other side of your "work-life balance"?

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Ghadames, Libya

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yawl is afloat

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@beeunzo

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Mary Oliver