Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen (via quotemadness)
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil Gibran (via quotemadness)
Gustav Vigeland Kneeling Man Embracing a Standing Woman
I live for elegance, mystery and sophisticaton but I also live for rawness, audacious sense of living and passionate unrefinement of feeling
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change…
Nathaniel Hawthorne (via wordsnquotes)
In dreams I hear a wind-chime, clarion and beckoning in it’s soft and solitary tone // Part 6
“Quietness, silence, total stillness, it is the greatest teacher. Reality shines through when there is silence. If you want to experience reality just keep quiet. That is all you have to do. Shut up. Stop talking. Stop thinking. Stop imagining. Leave it all alone.”
— Robert Adams
“The scent of blossom, morning sweetness, heavenly felicity.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946