A True Travel

The most magnificant poem hasn't been written yet.
The most beautiful song hasn't been sung yet.
The most glorious day hasn't been lived yet.
The most immence sea hasn't been pioneered yet.
The most prolonged travel hasn't been done yet.

The immortal dance hasn't been performed yet.
The most shine star hasn't been discovered yet.
When we don't know any more what we are supposed to do,
it's the time whe we can do true something.
When we don't know any more where we are supposed to go,
it's the start when the true travel has just begun.

Nazim Hikmet (1902 ~ 1963, Turkey)

A quote by Alber Elbaz

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Schiaparelli: Dress designing ... is to me not a profession but an art.

Prada: Dress designing is creative, but it is not an art. 

Fashion designers make clothes and they have to sell them. We have less creative freedom than artists. But to be honest, whether fashion is art or whether even art is art doesn't really interest me. Maybe nothing is art. Who cares!

"Art should not have to be a certain way,"
"Being anti-traditional is just as corny as being traditional."

- Willem de Kooning

"beautiful young people are accident of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art."

“I do not believe in eras or times. I do not.
I refuse to establish the value of things based on time.”

~ Piero Fornasetti ~

Walk Alone Like an Elephant in the Forest

Walk Alone Like an Elephant in the Forest

The Dhammapada (Chapter 23)

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If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly,

he may walk with him,

overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate.

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If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly,

let him walk alone,

like a king who has left his conquered country behind,

like an elephant in the forest.

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It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool;

let a man walk alone,

let him commit no sin, with few wishes,

like an elephant in the forest.

저 숲속의 코끼리처럼 혼자서 가라

군복무를 하던 시절 우연히 절에 가게될 일이 있었습니다. 제 앞에 놓여진 법구경을 우연히 펼쳐 읽게된 첫 구절이 있었는데 그 문장이 너무나 가슴 깊게 스며들어 반복해서 읽고 또 읽었던 기억이 있습니다. 종교라는 이념을 넘어 머리가 아닌 가슴으로 이 글을 한번 읽어보는 건 어떨까요.

저 숲속의 코끼리처럼 혼자서 가라

법구경 23장 게송

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멀고 먼 이 인생의 여행길에서

현명하고 조심성있는 사람을 만나거든

그와 함께 벗하여 가거라.

그러면 이 모든 위험에서 벗어날 수 있나니.

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그러나 이런 벗을 만나지 못하거든

외롭고 고되지만 차라리 혼자 가거라.

왕이 정복했던 나라를 버리고 돌아가듯

또는 홀로 숲속을 가는 저 코끼리처럼

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어리석은 자들과 무리지어 가는 것보다는

차라리 혼자가 되어 가는 것이 낫나니

더 이상의 잘못을 저지르지 말고

저 숲속의 코끼리처럼

외로이 혼자가 되어 걸어가라.

‎"There are designers that I admire, but I don't look up to them.
I don't really look at what everybody else is doing.
That's a studio mentality.
There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing."

-Alexander McQueen

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- from Paulo Coelho's novel "The Alchemist"

" 자네가 무언가를 간절히 원할 때, 온 우주는 자네의 소망이 실현되도록 도와준다네."
-파울로 코엘료 "연금술사" 중에서

Only those who dare to fail greatly

can ever achieve greatly.

크게 실패할 용기를 가진자만이 크게 성공할 수 있다.

- by Robert Kennedy

Happiness

So stop waiting
until you finish school,
until you go back to school,
until you lose ten pounds,
until you gain ten pounds,
until you have kids,
until your kids leave the house,
until you start work,
until you retire,
until you get married,
until you get divorced,
until Friday night,
until Sunday morning,
until you get a new car or home,
until your car or home is paid off,
until spring,
until summer,
until fall,
until winter,
until you are off welfare,
until the first or fifteenth,
until your song comes on,
until you've had a drink,
until you've sobered up,
until you die,
until you are born again
to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy…
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

- Alfred De Souza