I Have No Desire To Suffer Twice, In Reality And Then In Retrospect.

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Excavation of the Sphinx, 1850s. Follow for more 1800s nostalgia.

I got a beautiful botanical book, printed in 1926. Just look at these lovely illustrations 🌸

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Quédate conmigo hoy, vive conmigo un día y una noche y te mostraré el origen de todos los poemas. Tendrás entonces todo cuanto de grande hay en la tierra y en el sol y nada tomarás ya de segunda o tercera mano, ni mirarás más por los ojos de los muertos, ni te nutrirás con el espectro de los libros. Tampoco contemplarás el mundo con mis ojos ni tocarás las cosas con mis manos. Aprenderás a escuchar en todas direcciones y dejarás que la esencia del Universo se filtre por tu ser.

— Walt Whitman, Fragmento de ‘Canto a mí mismo’

- love in the mirror -

Taj Mahal / India 2016

Veit Rudolph Specklin (after Hans Holbein the Younger), Astronomical Chart of the Sun and Moon. 1534.

Charles Dana Gibson-The Weaker Sex VII♡

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via riversawaken)