A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.