There Are A Few Things In Life So Beautiful They Hurt: Swimming In The Ocean While It Rains, Reading

“The scent of blossom, morning sweetness, heavenly felicity.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946

It’s that time of year. Finally. It’s the time of year, When we finally remember what living is supposed to feel like. It’s almost here. Finally.

N.C. // summer (via blooming-anna-rose)

In dreams I hear a wind-chime, clarion and beckoning in it’s soft and solitary tone // Part 6

My favorite feeling is when it’s winter and you wake up in the middle of the night and you look out the window and there’s snow on the ground and the sky is kind of light colored and it looks misplaced and kind of eerie but also comforting i love it the most 

“I came from the sea and to the sea / I would return, to be immersed in her story, / ever lost and everlasting.”

— Nina Cassian, from Life Sentence; “Evolution” (via seaymphea)

I gave my heart in soft surrender—

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems; “Truck-Garden Market-Day,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

Alice in Wonderland (1951)