This image was captured by photographer Teruhide Tomori outside the historic Shoyeido (ๆพๆ ๅ ) incense shop in Kyotoโs Higashiyama district
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In unserem Dunkel: nicht ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ Platz hat die Schรถnheit darin. Der ganze Platz ist ihr, der Schรถnheit, zugedacht. Renรฉ Char _ Hypnos
How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art
โWhere the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, The Owls sits in council, like prophets of Fate, Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State...โ โ by Louis Wain, born on this day, 5 August 1860. #WednesdayWisdom
We donโt always get back what we give. But it says everything about who we are.
'Girl's head with a laurel twig,' by Alphonse Mucha, 1901
La sensibilidad herida no persigue el olvido ni la cicatriz; anhela un suave manto que la cobije hasta renacer en su plenitud. ๐ท?
Stefan Zweig For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.
It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny. ~ Luther Standing Bear
Not all owls are what they seem. There is a yลkai (ๅฆๆช) in Japan known as a 'Tatarimokke' (็ฅใ่ lit. 'cursed infant'). These 'owls' have been possessed by the spirit of a dead baby or young child, and will stay close to the family home. #็ฅใ่ #ๅฆๆช #tatarimokke #owl #yokai
The quiet ones never chase attention; they leave fragments of truth for those willing to find them.
I dreamt of amber lakes reflecting stone deserts and crystalline skies
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life ~ William Somerset Maugham John Michael Carter - Summer Reading
death takes and takes, with grasping, greedy hands... yet love, which wants for nothing, endures
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข, ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐ฑ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ธ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
We rarely know we're making memories while we're living themโฆ..
I promise I won't fail you. If I stumble, I'll rise again. And I'll keep finding my way back to you, until one day, it finally works.
Faites le bien, par petits bouts, lร oรน vous รชtes ; car ce sont tous ces petits bouts de bien, une fois assemblรฉs, qui transforment le monde. - Desmond Tutu - Tous ces petits riens...qui font du bien. โก
โLife is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it.โ โ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
words don't mean anything when there's no change in behavior