“Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.”
From, “Duino Elegies” by Rainer Maria Rilke
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is my response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
“Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don’t delude yourselves, don’t content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call “happiness” are not over here or over there, they are only “within yourselves.”
― Hermann Hesse
“For a while, is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.
At least by the person who’s waiting.”
― Haruki Murakami
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway
this is post 27 of 30 for NaBloPoMo
“All we need to live today
A gift for man to throw away
The chance to change has nearly gone”
– Lyrics from “Electricity” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
this is post 26 of 30 for NaBloPoMo
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank
this is post 25 of 30 for NaBloPoMo
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