Bella Wake Up!

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I am a Latina believer living in the wonderful city of Chicago noting here and there the beautiful and interesting.

Expect me to photo blog awesome songs, political links, art pieces and quotes that inspire me to keep going.

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Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
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- Mark Z Danielewski (via fwuakem)

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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
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- Edward Hopper

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It is a good fall when a man falls on his knees
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- C.H. Spurgeon

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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- E.B. White. (via)

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It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy ,generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre (via vugsvunny)

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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
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- Isaac Asimov (via khalom)

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“You are right in assuming that I am indifferent to the pattern of things. I am. I have never liked stale phrases and bodyless courage. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than clink upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
From a Zora Neale Hurston letter to writer Countee Cullen, March 5, 1943

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So much in our everyday living is designed to disguised us from the horror of living apart from God
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- Larry Crab quoted in ‘Unseduced and Unshaken’ by Rosalie DeRosset

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Look for yourself, and you will find loneliness and despair. But look for Christ and you will find Him and everything else - C. S. Lewis
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I’ve lost the magic by talking about it instead of just giving in to it.
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- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (249)

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Sentimentality: Like pornography, sentimentality corrupts the sight and the soul, because it is passion unearned. Whether it is Xerxes weeping at the morality of his unknown minions assembled at the Hellespont, or me being tempted to well up as the protagonist in Facing the Giants grips his Bible and whimpers in a glen, the rightful rejoinder is the same: you didn’t earn this emotion.
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- http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/bad-christian-art

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If you’re not creating, you’re waiting.
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- Kevin Pollak (via pablopapas)

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Artists and the Church ;

nobledust:

“We artists are often exiled twice: once by the church, and then, because of our faith, by the world.”

-from A Letter to North American Churches by Makoto Fujimura

read more here: http://www.makotofujimura.com/writings/a-letter-to-north-american-churches/

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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- Nora Ephron (via ruineshumaines)

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About

“ Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. ”

“ If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ”

“ It is a good fall when a man falls on his knees ”

“ If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ”

“ It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy ,generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it. ”

“ So much in our everyday living is designed to disguised us from the horror of living apart from God ”

“ Look for yourself, and you will find loneliness and despair. But look for Christ and you will find Him and everything else - C. S. Lewis ”

“ I’ve lost the magic by talking about it instead of just giving in to it. ”

“ If you’re not creating, you’re waiting. ”

Artists and the Church ;

“ Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ”

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Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
”

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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
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It is a good fall when a man falls on his knees
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“
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
”

“
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy ,generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
”

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So much in our everyday living is designed to disguised us from the horror of living apart from God
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Look for yourself, and you will find loneliness and despair. But look for Christ and you will find Him and everything else - C. S. Lewis
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I’ve lost the magic by talking about it instead of just giving in to it.
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If you’re not creating, you’re waiting.
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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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