"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Image: The Incredible Lightness No. 4 by Chelsea Victoria.
"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."
Edith Sitwell
Image: Tree by Jude McConkey Photos.
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, wracked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie
Image: Love Life by Laughing Dog Photography.
'Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...'
e e cummings
Image: Love by Amelia Kay Photography.
"All you need is love... love. Love is all you need."
John Lennon
Image: Heart by Dream Like Design.
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Kahlil Gibran
Image: Comfrey Herb by Liz Reed.
"A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant."
Coco Chanel
Image by Lillian Bassman.
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
John Lubbock
Image: Demi Saison by Raceytay.
"I turned silences and night into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still."
Arthur Rimbaud
Image: Night Walk No. 1, The Grand Canal by Colin Homes.
"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
Image: Pink Flower by First Light Photography.
"[My Guru] says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it...."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image: The Art of Happiness by Sherman Photography.
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus
Image: Purple Sea Urchin by Leaping Gazelle Studios.
"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Image: Early Winter Mystic by Amanda Keaton Photography.
'Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.'
Theodore Roethke
Image: Summer Flower by Raceytay.
