hopeful

I just wanted you to know that this is me trying

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…”work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels…a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven”…

~Walter Benjamin

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…”in books I have traveled, not only to other worlds,  but into my own”…

~Anna Quindlen

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…the ideals of compassion and creativity have incredible power…music, literature, visual arts can lift humanity…

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…the silence of solitude…the things that cannot reach you in the crowd you will find there…

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…wake up!…and live your dreams…

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…”life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”…

~Jane Austen

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…”April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, weep thy girlish tears, April”…

~Angus Wilson

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…let your imagination bloom in a riot of scent…

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…the greatest happiness is to find a calm peaceful corner…

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…”I cannot write about Venice…I can only write about me…and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness”…

~Jessica Zafra

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…a good perspective is when your problems become opportunities…

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…”everything that’s lovely is but a brief, dreamy kind of delight”…

~William Butler Yeats

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…there’s always a reason to look up…

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…a timeless place has a sense of history… 

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…the colour of winter is in the imagination…

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…follow the light…there are riches to behold…

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…life begins after the first glorious sip…