[florial]

[thehopefulquotes]

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

[quotefeeling]

“Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you’re going to respond to life.”

— Wess Stafford

[thehopefulquotes]

“I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.”

— Paul McCartney

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

[rai-r]

[journalofanobody]

Not lost, not stalled. Things are merely calm. It's in the calm that we find our bearings, not in chaos. You're headed in the tight direction. Small steps, small gains, a great beginning.

[journalofanobody]

[weltenwellen]

Wait Galway Kinnell

[robinboardman]

“There is peace even in the storm” ― Vincent van Gogh See more

[quotespile]

“I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I’d better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch one. But my honest self revolted at this, hated me for doing this.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[thehopefulquotes]

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[quotespile]

“War transforms its participants. What was once necessary appears inessential; what was taken for granted, unappreciated and abused now reveals itself to be central to our existence. Strange inversions proliferate.”

— Zadie Smith, Intimations

[thehopefulquotes]

“What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”

— Chester Bennington

[huariqueje]

The red sea at sunset    -    Galileo Chini ,  1911.

Italian ,  1873 - 1956

Oil on canvas , 64  x 80 cm.

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

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T Williams.

[journalofanobody]

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”  ― Tennessee Williams