“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”.
― Oscar Wilde
Art – Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967), American
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Winter
“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
― Mary Oliver
“Sunset in a Winter Forest” – Julius von Klever, 1904
Julius Sergius von Klever (January 31, 1850 – December 24, 1924) was a Baltic German landscape painter.
November
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Art – November, 1876 by Fidelia Bridges
Trust thyself
The power which resides in [each person] is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Art – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A garden
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
Thomas Matthews Rooke – A London Garden, 1904.
Moonlight
“We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.”
― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Art – Wilfred Jenkins (1857-1936), A Country House by Moonlight
Silence
“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska
Johan (John) Kindborg (Sweden, 1861-1907)
I wish
“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams” – Zdzisław Beksiński
Art – Zdzisław Beksiński
Warmth of summer
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
Art – Franz Waldegg
Whatever one gives
“Whatever one gives, ought to be from what one would otherwise spend, not from what he would otherwise pay. To spend little and give much, is the highest glory a man can aspire to.”
– Edmund Burke
Illustration by William S. Tiffany.
