emily p.
ballerina at the jacobs school of music
bloomington, indiana
june, 2014
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It’s not only the technique that matters, but rather what’s in your soul. If your soul is beautiful, you’re beautiful in all ways.
young ballerina of Vaganova Ballet Academy (via babelesque)
My mother used to say to me, ‘You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you.’ And these words played and bothered me, I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume. It was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant by saying that you can’t eat beauty is that you can’t rely on beauty to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.
Lupita Nyong’o (via thebeautyofmelanin)
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man’s reasonable perception into feeling.
Leo Tolstoy (via afroui)
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges (b. 24 August 1899)