I'm Elle.
I'm a broke college student and an insomniac.
This is my life.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon (via circusfolk)
(Source: translucenttt)
1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
2: Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort.
3: Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral.
4: Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking is not enough.
5: Travel as much as you can. It is a humbling and inspiring experience to learn just how much you don’t know.
6: Being original is still king, especially in this tech-driven, group-grope world.
7: Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them.
8: Instinct and intuition are all-powerful. Learn to trust them.
9: The Golden Rule actually works. Do good.
10: If all else fails, No. 2 is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.
10 Lessons for young designers, by John C. Jay (Wieden+Kennedy)
What I like about this: It doesn’t apply to only designers. It’s universal.
(via mginnard)
(Source: sebastianwaters)
The Aquarium Phone Booth
An ordinary phone booth was transformed into an aquarium by artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino as part of the Lyon Light Festival in France.
As the designers stated:
“With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium, full of exotically colored fish; an invitation to escape and travel.”
SO CUTE.
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
looking at the kitchen cabinet
One Day
One day, I’ll look back on these days and wonder what I spent all my time worrying about. I’ll be completely satisfied with everything in my life, and think, “I should have known it would all be okay.” And I guess I know that everything will work out. It’s just hard to keep reminding myself that everything will truly be okay.
One day, I’ll be in love. Real love. The kind of love that shakes you to the core… the kind of love you don’t understand… the kind of love you don’t WANT to understand. I don’t know when or where I’ll find that man that makes me feel like this… all I know is that I’ll find him. And every single day after that day will be more amazing than the last.
One day, I’ll know who I am. I’ll stop having to wonder what other people will think about the things I’m going to do or the consequences of my actions. I’ll be able to act with the sheer comfort that I am doing something that I know to be right… something that upholds something I truly believe in.
One day, I will be a real person. I don’t know when that day will come… all I know is that I have to keep living my life like it never will happen. And maybe, just maybe, it will.
