WUTB..♡

The moon shone down on everything with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses.

Franz Kafka, The Trial (via ontheedgeofdarkness)

Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Pablo Picasso (via goodreadss)

Look not only with the eyes..

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

Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) dir. Blake Edwards

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)

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Evening dress (detail), 1925-28

From the Cincinnati Art Museum via Art Hopper

Gustav Klimt, Judith I detail, 1901

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

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver, from “In Blackwater Woods” (via theclassicsreader)

Only with the things you really need..