short writings and wonders

Life

[quotemadness]

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

[burning-soul]

[strawberrypantsu]

[therealwonders]

The second picture looks like there’s another world in the sky.

[observando]

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela (via observando)

[gregory-lejeune]

Trois vues de la Galerie des batailles du château de Versailles.

Photos: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/zahikel/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

[photos91-blog]

Only in Valencia can you see bright stars in the middle of the day.

[girlinbk-deactivated20160805]

[wordsnquotes]

People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.

David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

[culturenlifestyle]

[wordsnquotes]

culturenlifestyle:

House of Books by Franck Bohbot

Brooklyn-based, French artist, Franck Bohbot’s photography focuses on the beauty of public spaces. In “House of Books,” Bohbot captures the grandiosity and architectural details of libraries across the world with a specialization in France. By focusing on a library’s symmetrical and systematic set up, Bohbot reveals the beauty in an overlooked place by its passersby and scholars. 

View this entire project here!

View his other projects in cinema, theaters, and libraries here!

[wordsnquotes]

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…

Aldous Huxley, Island (via wordsnquotes)

[vivirenmexico]

[wordsnquotes]

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil… there is no other story.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[dahn626]

[therealwonders]

“How beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I’m not there yet. It’s so clear and pure in its pinks and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smear of dirt.”

Morning at Antibes, Claude Monet

[christopheratthezoo]

[worshipgifs]

[irreplaceable-spark]

Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1862

[cipangoultragirl]

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