[vintage-russia]

Serafimo-Ponetayevskiy Monastery,Ponetayevka village (1904)

[divinum-pacis]

An elderly Palestinian Christian lights a candle during mass in the Greek Orthodox Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in the West Bank village of Aboud, November 7, 2010. UPI/Debbie Hill

[vintage-russia]

Monks from the Konevskiy Monastery,Konevets/Kononsaari Island,Saint Petersburg governorate (1890s/1900s)

[noviceforever]

Saviour Convent in Voronerh

[cedarofgod]

Saint Elias Monastery in Hadchit, North Lebanon.

[bobo-pompadour]

[areasonablydressedwoman]

[relelvance]

"Great Greek philosphers" you mean a man with an opinion? I can find that anywhere

[silfarione]

Danny and his son, Paris. Photo by Jacques -Henri Lartigue, 1944.

[thewildetyme]

“I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone… I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.”

— Ranata Suzuki

[listentothestories]

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

[oliviacatherinefionn]

Disappointed Love, by painter Francis Danby (1821).

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mouldings with gray earthy tones

[virtuallyinsane]

[grace--upon--grace]

[archangellia-deactivated2022110]

Budapest, Hungary

[vintagecamping]

A couple stops to rest and take in the immense view, while hiking through the Swiss Alps. Switzerland 1984