“And We Together Sadly Sank Into A Reverie.”

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”

— Lao Tzu 

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”

— John Greenleaf Whittier (b. 17 December 1807)

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”

From @sacredmoonadornments 

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“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)

Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “An Afterthought”

Text ID: Sure she kept one part of Eden / Angels could not strip her of.

Sylvia Plath