"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings" ✨
~ Plato
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams…” 🎻✨
~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back and home to bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.” ✨
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
“Always remember, your focus determines your reality”
~ George Lucas
A sky full of dreams...
“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.”
~ Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
“The joy of living is the gratitude of the moment.”
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
~ Bob Marley
"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life."
~ Mark Twain
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
~ Anatole France
Joy and wonder happen when you play with dirt!
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good." ~ Dr. Seuss
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
~ Rumi
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan: Fairy Tales
"On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak…"
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"Please... draw me a sheep..."
"S'il vous plaît... dessine-moi un mouton!"
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"Are those the magic fairy wands, glistening on the tree?
Or only winter icicles that I see?"
“Earth is dearer than Gold.” ~ Estonian Proverb
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ✨ ~ Maya Angelou
"I am Rose my eyes are blue
I am Rose and who are you?
I am Rose and when I sing
I am Rose like anything." 🌹
~ Gertrude Stein
"Wisdom begins in Wonder"
~ Socrates
"Where there is kindness there is goodness
Where there is goodness there is Magic!"
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
~ Plato
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
~ Marcel Proust
"Light tomorrow with today." 🕯✨
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about." <3
~ Angela Schwindt
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
~ Plato
“Every day of the week
In winter and autumn
In Paris skies by day
The factory chimneys smoke only gray
But springtime arrives, a flower over his ear
On his arm a pretty girl
Sunflower Sunflower 🌻
That’s the name of the flower
The nickname of the girl”
~ Jacques Prévert, Tournesol
“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore...”
― Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ~ John Muir
Once upon a time in an enchanted forest…
"Life is full of whimsical happenings..."
~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Le Ballon Rouge...
Image inspired by the 1956 award winning film and book "Le Ballon Rouge/The Red Balloon" from Albert Lamorisse.
"When snow falls, nature listens..." <3
~ Antoinette van Kleeff
"I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish, I wish tonight..."
"There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it..." ✨🕯
~ Edith Wharton