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"You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores ... the Sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realise that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart."
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us — and those around us — more effectively. Look for the learning."
~ Louisa May Alcott
Swallows (1873) 🎨 Edouard Manet
Whose End-of-Day balm makes you go "I'll have some of that please, Cian. Thank you very much. 🙂"
A • Claude Monet B • David James
C • Kitty Kielland D • Eero Järnefelt
"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust
Sunlit Wall Under a Tree (c.1913) 🎨 John Singer Sargent
"Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree;
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?"
~ Emily Brontë
Nordic Summer Evening 🎨 Richard Bergh (Swedish, 1858–1919)
"We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed ... which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph."
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Forest River Scene 🎨 Antonín Hudeček
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Morning (1732-67) 🎨 Johann Georg Wagner
"Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone."
~ Rumi
In the Rain (1912) 🎨 Franz Marc
"Let go of the Past; entrust the Future to Providence; and redirect the Present according to Justice and the Sacred."
~ Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations'
The Red Canoe (1884) 🎨 Winslow Homer