“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”
— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)
Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography
Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”
From @sacredmoonadornments
“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”
—Daybreak, §412 (edited).
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus
“…One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
— Hamlet (Hamlet, Act I scene v)
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
— Maya Angelou
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)
“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”
— Leo Tolstoy (1847-1910), Anna Karenina
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours
“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”
— Syd Barrett (via quotemadness)