'I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.'
~ Agatha Christie

🎨 Frank Bramley (1909)

• William Wordsworth •

'I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.'
~ Albert Camus, 'The Stranger'

Avenue to Schloss Kammer
🎨 Gustav Klimt (1912)

'And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.'
~ Kahlil Gibran

• Sara Teasdale •

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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Bláthú🌼 #Bloom #oilpainting 90cm x 70cm #art #flowers

'For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others, they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... but all these stars are silent. You—you alone will have stars as no one else has them.'
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Percy B. Shelley •

'Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.'
~ 𝒆. 𝒆. 𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔

Canal in Venice 🎨 Henri Martin

'Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.'
~ Orson Welles

The Luncheon (1873)
🎨 Claude Monet

'I go among trees and sit still'
• Wendell Berry •

'One enjoys true leisure who has time to improve their soul's estate.'
~ Henry David Thoreau

Capo di Noli (1898) 🎨 Paul Signac

After seeing this wince-inducing post from a person who unfortunately comes from the same county as me, and in the interest of offering people an alternative perspective, I hope all my Irish followers (and everyone else) will follow Rachel Moiselle.

Her character I do vouch for.

New Week, New Words 🤠

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'And let my loosed, insatiate being pass
Into the blackbird's song of summer ease
Or, with the white moon, rise in spirit from the trees.'

• Robert Louis Stevenson •

'There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.'
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky (1936)

'We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.'
~ A.A. Milne

(Sketch by E.H. Shepard)