[xshayarsha]

“…you feel that you are always in a state of waiting, expecting some event, not on the outside, but inside you, in your guts.”

— Adonis, from The Book of Siege; Candlelight. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.

[kicker-of-elves]

cafe in Cartagena, Colombia

National Geographic April 1989       O. Louis Mazzatenta.

[novemberof1997]

You have to start noticing things. The direction of the rays of sunshine, how it touches and warms your skin; the sway of a leaf in a mild breeze; the simple beauty of the flowers; the strong smell of your morning coffee; the wind in your hair and on your face; the liveliness of the city; the calm of your soul. You have to start noticing this and start living for it.

[zaqnabut-deactivated20220621]

“Width of life is more important than length of life.”

— Ibn Sīnā (via roadtofalah)

[thegoodvybe]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations.”

— Joquesse Eugenia

[shihlun]

HAYASHI Takeshi

- Woman Combing

(1949)

[my-retro-vintage]

The letter writer Egypt   1935

[criticalmera]

[aliofbabylon-deactivated2023020]

“I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via ophiraa)

[tanyaluca]

“Regardless of my transient joys, I am never free of a feeling of melancholy which somehow forms the base of my heart.”

- Chopin, Quoted in Edward N. Waters, Frederic Chopin (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1963)

[shisoyak-deactivated20130731]

IRAN. Isfahan. A young woman with a rose in the Chahar Bagh gardens, reminder of a persian miniature. 1998.

© Abbas/Magnum Photos

[senya-sj]

‏"يلسعني الحنين إلى حياةٍ لم تكن سعيدة، ولكنها ممتلئة"

[painstation-deactivated20181026]

[d-ici-et-d-ailleurs]

Ghana, Afrique de l’Ouest, 1960 par le photographe français MARC RIBOUD  (1923-2016)

[endophoras-deactivated20200411]

Anna Akhmatova; from Selected Poems, “I Taught Myself To Live Simply”

[gomesh19]