“People Usually Fail When They Are On The Verge Of Success. So Give As Much Care To The End As To The

“And we together sadly sank Into a reverie.”

— Emily Brontë, from A Day Dream

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”

From @sacredmoonadornments 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "The Possessed,"

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus