What now?

I am a lover of all things ancient. For me, the past has so many lessons and the future has so much hope. The present seems so dull in comparison... Il corpo può morire ma i pensieri rimarranno eterni...

[rihardgansey]

I might not be the coolest, smartest or prettiest but for sure I’m the sleepiest.

[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

chronic fatigue people represent

[breathtakingdestinations]

Catania - Italy (by Jeanne Menjoulet) 

[mushi-and-junior]

little women characters: Jo March

I’m so sick of people saying love is all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it! But I’m so lonely.

[stephenearp]

Warm light on a cold day

[samantha-evergreen]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain.

Mary Manin Morrissey (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[backroadshoney]

sleeping season

[artfoli]

Details in Blue

Infanta Isabel de Bourbon, 1866, by Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzalez.

Madame Charles Simon Favart, 1757, by François-Hubert Drouais.

Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, 1775, by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty.

Princesse de Broglie, 1853, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Admiring the Gift, by Pio Ricci.

Portrait de Philomena Lynch, 1900’s, by Paul Jobert.

Marie-Antoinette with the Rose, 1783, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Anne Streatfeild, 1756, by Arthur Devis.

María Isabel Álvarez y Montes, 1868, by Federico Madrazo.

Portrait of Amalia de Llano, 1853, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz.

[lawyerd]

699 | More school break posts - vintage shopping at Memory Hole Vintage in Somerville, MA 

Currently Listening - Holy War, Rainbow Kitten Surprise

[robert-hadley]

Eugène Atget - ‘Spring’, by the sculptor François Barois, jardin des Tuileries, 1st arrondissement 1907.

[51percentgent]

[globalchristendom]

A monk in Italy. (Photographer: Steve McCurry)

[marianhalcombes]

“The first time I sat in that library, holding a book published before 1500, I felt something akin to the way I have felt next to oceans: tiny, and in right proportion to the world. Handling books from centuries before is a poignant reminder that, not only have people loved books for as long as they have existed, they will continue to do so long into the future. Perhaps today, bibliomania does not feel like an irrational behaviour, as books have become less venerated and libraries rarer. Rather, as it was for others before us, it is a careful act of preservation for those who come after.”

— Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying (via gnossienne)

[litverve]

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anaïs Nin, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (via litverve)

[litverve]

No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds: Through day or night, cathedral or the cave We pass forever, craving form that binds.

Hermann Hesse, from “Lament” in The Glass Bead Game: A Novel, trans. Clara and Richard Winston (via litverve)

[placesandpalaces]

Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge, England

[itscolossal]

Shuttered Windows and Placid Canals Show Venice’s Sleepier Side in Night Photographs by Thibaud Poirier

[faithistorment]

Deep In A Dream – Central Park: Photos by Michael Massaia