flowers & words.

[thoughtkick]

“There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.”

— Unknown

[underthegaslight]

Roses filmed by Arthur Edward Pillsbury, c. 1925 (in colour).

[minuty]

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

[carousel-of-memories]

“ Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? ”

— Charles Bukowski (The Post Office)

[thoughtkick]

“You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.”

— Joanna Trollope (via perfeqt)

[churchrummagesale]

you grew on me like a rose, the sweetest i’ve ever known

[minuty]

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

— Franz Kafka

[elcrivain]

5.31.19 | to be read today

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Keith Haring Journals, January 3 1988

[brown-aesthetics]

[extractandrecite]

“Patience is needed for dreams to grow and give fruit.”

— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

[worldexperience]

[lettersfromadreamgirl]

“I bow to the daydreams I buried myself in,”

— Hannu Mäkelä, tr. by Herbert Lomas, from Contemporary Finnish Poetry: “Dream On Happiness Number 5,”  (via paper-fairy)

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[naturaekos]

“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.”

— Paul Coelho

[odonianpoet]

[minuty]

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates