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Honoring Tradition in a Modern World

In short, this blog is some documentation for me in my attempts to start living in a more...

[psych2go]

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

— Gertrude Stein (via fyp-psychology)

[romanceangel]

“She was conscious of an inexpressible tenderness in her heart,”

— Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; “The Two Volodyas,”

[alovethathelpsmethrive]

““What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.””

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via wordsnquotes)

[lesnmpheas]

[pales-in-comparison]

[gardenersdesire]

[llovinghome]

[die-rosastrasse]

Sir Edward John Poynter

English, 1836-1919

Psyche in the Temple of Love (detail)

[lets-catch-some-waves]

[fleurduart]

Artemisia Gentileschi, Venere e Cupido Detail

[hellish-daddy]

“… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.”

Charles Bukowski

(me)

[pansoph]

[templeofapelles]


A Flower Garland with the Martyrdom of Saint Dorothea of Caesarea, Frans Francken the Younger, (first halt of the 17th century)

[wordsnquotes]

Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.

Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951   (via down-the-rabbith0le)

[syrenum]

[lifeinpoetry]

I wish to be water so I can’t be held.

Chelsea Dingman, from “In the Months After We Come Home From the Hospital Empty-Handed” published in Gulf Coast (via lifeinpoetry)