Valery

“Reality, like value, is determined by mob mentality, and just being deemed genuine—or fake—was enough to make it so.”
― Aja Raden, Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
― David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Sometimes, the heart must break in order to open.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”
― Audre Lorde