Madeline's Armoire

A wanderer with a fondness for people who feel like home.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. February 1953

[madelinesarmoire]

Sounds about right. Good things are growing.

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“A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.”

— Theodore Zeldin

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

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Dead Man’s Cove Cape Disappointment

[sehomes]

[the-sleepy-poet]

“i find it funny when people say they want to ‘change the world.’ everything you do every day changes the world. small things like offering praise, holding the door, sending a text that says ‘thinking of you, just wanted to say hey’ – those are the things that change the world for the better. most of us will never touch millions with music like the Beatles. most of us will never inspire like Tony Robbins or Barack Obama. but every one of us can pass on a simple kindness. no matter what you call it – the flap of a butterfly’s wings, a ripple in humanity – the small actions are what make big changes.”

— i told a kid he was riding his two-wheeler like a pro and it made his day which made my day.

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“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

— Virginia Woolf

[thebeautifulwordlist]

Naissance

Noun

[ney-suh ns] 

1. a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.

Origin: The English noun naissance comes from Middle French naissance, which is a derivative of the verb naître “to be born.” The French verb comes from the Vulgar Latin nāscere, a regular verb replacing the Latin deponent verb nāscī. Naissance entered English in the late 15th century. The sense of “new style, movement, or development (in the arts)” comes from a French usage of the 20th century.

“Nina’s watchful eyes opened wider and wider as she witnessed in Eileen the naissance of an unconscious and delicate coquetry, quite unabashed, yet the more significant for that…” - Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set, 1907

[the-book-diaries]

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong (via the-book-diaries)

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You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.

Psalm 30:11

[madelinesarmoire]

Dreamscapes and dances.

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Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Jacques D’Ambroise

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien