Ash

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

“Every woman is a captive queen.”

- G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

[۟ @fendimogul]

there are so many films to watch, music to hear, books to read. ugh

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

"A woman is like good literature, accesible to all but incomprehensible for limited people."
Márquez

Calm evening

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

"Art and reading are the only decent ejaculations of the soul."
Joris-Karl Huysmans, "Là-Bas"
Calm evening

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Shakespeare bringing the energy

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."
~ D.H. Lawrence

Autumn on Krestovsky Island
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
~ Maya Angelou

An October Day (1876)
🎨 Fidelia Bridges

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."
Schopenhauer
☕️📚🌷
Good morning

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
Montaigne, "Les Essais"

Calm evening

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

To gain your own voice,
forget about having it heard.
Become a saint of your own
province and your own
consciousness.

—Allen Ginsberg

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

"Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Rama II"

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

— Maxim Gorky

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

I think about this often.

from CS Lewis’s Collected Letters

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Whatever your problems are, keep in mind that you die at the end of all this. Lets get out there, brutalize ourselves and laugh at those certain pricks who take it seriously, like there is any way to win in all this.”

-- Doug Stanhope

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
- Oscar Wilde

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.”

— Alexandre Dumas

[𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕗𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣🌻✊🏿🟥⬛️🟩 ☭ @PanAfriKeem]

“I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protected them and their property.”-Assata Shakur

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

- Marcus Aurelius

(art: Mary Bradish Titcomb: Morning Coffee)

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski