Herb Ritts & R.T. Bennet

Photo by Herb Ritts, Male nude, 1985



Accept yourself,
love yourself,
and keep moving forward.
If you want to fly,
you have to give up what weights you down.

Roy T. Bennet
The light in the heart

Robert Mapplethorpe & Cormac McCarthy

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe, White Gaze

Scars

 have the strange power

 to remind us

 that our past

 is real.

Cormac McCarthy

Roberto Kusterle & 4 Non Blondes

Photo by Roberto Kusterle



And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What' s going on?

4 Non Blondes

Gilbert Garcin & Rumi

Photo by Gilbert Garcin



Your task is not to seek for love
 but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself that
 you have built
 against it.

Rumi

Josef Sudek & Bertol Brecht

Photo by Josef Sudek



Weaknesses

You had none
I had one:
I loved.

Bertol Brecht

Helena Almeida & Borges

Pintura habitada, by Helena Almeida, 1975




I know what the Greeks do not know,
incertitude.


Jorge Luis Borges,
Labyrinths

Ernst Haas & Voltaire

Photo by Ernst Haas, Misfits, 1960




All men are by nature free,
you have therefore
an undoubted liberty to depart
whenever you please,
but
will have many and great difficulties
to encounter
in passing the frontiers.

Voltaire
Candide