“…you feel that you are always in a state of waiting, expecting some event, not on the outside, but inside you, in your guts.”
— Adonis, from The Book of Siege; Candlelight. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.
“…you feel that you are always in a state of waiting, expecting some event, not on the outside, but inside you, in your guts.”
— Adonis, from The Book of Siege; Candlelight. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.
cafe in Cartagena, Colombia
National Geographic April 1989 O. Louis Mazzatenta.
You have to start noticing things. The direction of the rays of sunshine, how it touches and warms your skin; the sway of a leaf in a mild breeze; the simple beauty of the flowers; the strong smell of your morning coffee; the wind in your hair and on your face; the liveliness of the city; the calm of your soul. You have to start noticing this and start living for it.
“Width of life is more important than length of life.”
— Ibn Sīnā (via roadtofalah)
“I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations.”
— Joquesse Eugenia
HAYASHI Takeshi
- Woman Combing
(1949)
The letter writer Egypt 1935
“Regardless of my transient joys, I am never free of a feeling of melancholy which somehow forms the base of my heart.”
- Chopin, Quoted in Edward N. Waters, Frederic Chopin (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1963)
Ghana, Afrique de l’Ouest, 1960 par le photographe français MARC RIBOUD (1923-2016)
Anna Akhmatova; from Selected Poems, “I Taught Myself To Live Simply”