Solitary = living or being by one’s self; having no companion present; alone; lonely.
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
–Franz Kafka
Art by Kinuko Y. Craft.
“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
Success is smoothly undefined. But when I get up at the crack of dawn burning with impatience to start work, I know that maybe I have done something good. Succeeding is not a battle. As keeping a diet is not a short term fight but a poised long term lifestyle. You do something different and more every day without solely concentrating on the scope.
My settlement for success is the place where I do what I like and what I want in an untainted sort of way. I like meeting new people and keeping their interest high on my way of solving their communication clashes. I love writing and using my words for attracting keepers of beautiful ideas that inspire…My passions are the same, persuasion has more ways now.
Temperament dictates living and doing. And succeeding. I do precisely what I want and stick to my plan. Nevertheless your words can persuade me on other paths. Gladly I desire good things for me and my people and I want to help first, and then to ponder over ways to practice what I preach. I love the words that unite…I abhor the words that divide.
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ―George Bernard Show
Mistakes are manifold and not important. Important is what we do with them. We can make them renewable or nonrenewable. Time is not renewable, it is just one flow “at a time”. It is said that successful people are able to do more in the space of one day. Time allows everything to happen and be created. Persuading time to stop is a way to success…? Time, imagination and temperament are the means of creating something as beautiful as this:
Art by Maurice Prendergast.
Accord = to be consistent or in harmony ; to reconcile.
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others.”
–Alan Watts
Art by Eric Roux-Fontaine.
You are better than unicorns
and moonshine combined.
You are better than gossamer
and fireflies entwined.
Make sure to notice
the collateral beauty
of dreaming and dreading,
wishing and fearing,
abysses and mountains,
venom and honey
in a kiss
that numbs
and talks to my heart
about the color of a feeling.
Art by Helen Flockhart.
Iulia Halatz
She says: “Be the one who cares, make words so disruptive that they create new worlds, hopes and dreams. Even if we are unhappy dinosaurs and find shelter in an Iron Tale or ruminate about feeling too much, whilst declaring colorless apparel, we should take power and strength from our stories.”
Her published poems can be found in The Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.
Zest = enthusiasm, eagerness, energy, interest.
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Art by James R. Eads
Respite = a short break or escape from something difficult or unpleasant.
“I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.” –Ernest Hemingway
Art by Marianne von Werefkin – Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter (1860-1938).
Romania is my country and the sweet hills covered in vineyards are my home place.
The balmy moonlit vineyards can keep a heart from breaking.
Here, in Romania, Beauty follows you everywhere. When you think you’ve lost it, it’s there breathing magic on your neck, tugging at your sleeve with a gorgeous sunset, misty mountains, bluish lakes, Shire-like emerald hills, fortresses that once kept invaders at bay…
I illustrate with a stunning movie about my country, showing Romania as it is: fresh, sophisticated, rough, ancient, modern, mesmerizing, wild, misterious … in one word, AMAZING.
https://mohamadkarbi.com/romania/
Let’s Fly …Romania! Produced by Anthony Brzeski.
Courtesy of Let’s Fly! [PRODUCTION].
Tenet = a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true; one of the principles on which a belief or theory is based:
“Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
– John Keats
Art – “Lady in a Garden by Moonlight” by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893).
White, blue or
crimson clear
of desperate clouds
in stirring thoughts of nights
Coalescing
in the dark
that matters not
among the larks
of mighty Spring
which sunned and bloomed
with every drop of wind…
Art by Daniel F.Gerhartz.
Worthwhile = useful, important, or good enough to be a suitable reward for the money or time spent or the effort made.
*Does the sun ask itself, “Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?” No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, “What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?” No, it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, “Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?” No, it burns, it shines.*
— Andrea Dworkin
Art – Enclosed Field with Rising Sun by Vincent van Gogh.