"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." ~ Charlotte Brontë 🎨 Nino Chakvetadze
Cian McCarthy
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"The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate." ~ John Ruskin November Evening in a Welsh Wood 🎨 James Thomas Watts (1895)
Blueing into all that was ever meant, the November month is Sunday sent.
"It is very little that we can ever know of the ways of Providence or the Laws of Existence; but that little is enough, and exactly enough." ~ John Ruskin 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 (1889) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
"a play of wind and sea and light..." Kenneth C. Steven
"I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die." ~ Thomas Hardy, 'Far from the Madding Crowd' A Couple in the Woods (1885) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~ Henry David Thoreau The Wooded Lane 🎨 Claude Monet (1876)
"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself." ~ Margaret Fuller The Autumn Forest (1902) 🎨 Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Beautiful 🤌🏼✨️ 'The Light Continues' by Linda Gregg
"Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world." ~ Oscar Wilde W𝐢n𝐝s𝐰e𝐩t A𝐮t𝐮m𝐧 🎨 Jo Grundy
"It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?" ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery The River in Autumn (1912) 🎨 Gustave Loiseau
"I bring you the gift of these four words: 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂." ~ Blaise Pascal Autumn (1890) 🎨 László Mednyánszky
Give yourself a moment, and read... • Kenneth Steven •
"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." ~ D.H. Lawrence Along the Woods in Autumn 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1885)
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke October (1901) 🎨 John Henry Twachtman
"He who masters the grey everyday is a hero." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky Golden Birches in Autumn 🎨 Arkady Rylov
"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face." ~ John Donne
"It is Life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies." ~ Marcel Proust Autumn on Krestovsky Island 🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1892)
Glorious 🤌🏼✨️ "It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins." ~ P. G. Wodehouse 'Jeeves and the Old School Chum'
"The creative activity of the imagination frees man from his bondage to 'nothing but' and liberates in him the spirit of play." ~ Carl G. Jung Fairy Animals (1913) 🎨 Franz Marc