As the majestic Year of the Dragon bows out, the elegant Year of the Snake slithers in✨✨ Wishing everyone prosperity, happiness, and endless blessings in the new year🎉🥰🎆🍻💓
So much to give, but no one to give it to ‘Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.’ 🖼️
"When I was a child and growing up, books saved me from despair, and it convinced me that culture is the greatest value." Simon de Beauvoir
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” — Buddha
Between green and blue, a cottage tells the tale of simple life's beauty.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ~ Robert H. Schuller
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.” — Haruki Murakami
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” — Khaled Hosseini
In psychoanalysis there are no immediate answers only the long and patient search for reasons. Jacques Lacan
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." ~ W. Somerset Maugham #WorldBookDay Carl Holsøe (1909)
To our surprise,
we find the child,
with its impulses,
living on in the dream.
Sigmund Freud
Happy Chinese Lantern Festival!
上元喜乐！
Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, it’s the first full moon day in a new year, marks completion of CNY celebrations & heralds peace, happiness & fortune!
Night Scene in Peking, an original woodcut print, by British artist Elizabeth Keith, 1922.
Happy Chinese Lantern Festival!
上元喜乐！
Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, it’s the first full moon day in a new year, marks completion of CNY celebrations & heralds peace, happiness & fortune!
Night Scene in Peking, an original woodcut print, by British artist Elizabeth Keith, 1922.
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
Jacques Lacan, Often
Art by Edgar Degas, The Little Dancer, models unknown
