Frank Hendriks Photography: You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Depression goes through stages, but if left unchecked and not treated, this elevator ride will eventually go all the way to the bottom floor. And pretty soon one overarching impulse begins winning the battle for your mind: “Kill yourself.”
Frank Hendriks Photography: There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Now, when it was too late, and Life's shops were closed, he regretted not having bought a certain book he had always wanted; never having gone through an earthquake, a fire, a train accident; never having seen Tatsienlu in Tibet.
Frank Hendriks Photography: The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.
Frank Hendriks Photography: There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing - light trumps darkness, every time.
Frank Hendriks Photography: There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
Frank Hendriks Photography: 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to coffee.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive!
Frank Hendriks Photography: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
Frank Hendriks Photography: My phone's been quiet ever since.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Somehow society has fooled us into believing that our job is the important part of life.
Frank Hendriks Photography: They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.
Frank Hendriks Photography: You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Scoot the fuck over. You're hogging the bed.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. When people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’
Frank Hendriks Photography: If the cave-man had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Frank Hendriks Photography: To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.
Frank Hendriks Photography: Death is like an old whore in a bar - I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her.
Frank Hendriks Photography: If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.
Frank Hendriks Photography: One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I was forever twitching and shaking.
Frank Hendriks Photography: You should date a girl who reads. Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I killed four flies while waiting.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I’m drowning in nothing.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone.
Frank Hendriks Photography: I had my doubts, but I am excited now. It feels like anything is possible. It feels like there’s a reason to get up in the morning.