#ward

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#basil-hallward #art

My thoughts are wing'd with hopes, My hopes with love. Thoughts, hopes and love return to me no more, Until Cynthia shine as she hath done before. ↗

— Eve Edwards

#hope #love #the-rogue-s-princess #thoughts #love

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#afterwards #before #eyes #half #keep

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#marriage #marriage

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#cowardly #escape #only #peace #problems

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#fantasy #wicked #men

A coward talks to everyone but YOU. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#insecure-women #paranoid-men #sisterinlaws #sisters #weak

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#awkwardness #conquests #lose #men #more

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#land #stewardship #art

Change has to come for life to struggle forward. ↗

— Helen Hollick

#life #moving-forward #moving-on #change