A Friend With Chocolate

This series of quotes designed by Erin Jang for Real Simple are pretty nifty but my favorite is this one because I can't help but agree. Charles Dickens was one smart man.

I Carry Your Heart With Me

e.e.cumming’s “i carry your heart with me” never fails to set my heart a-flutter. It’s a beautifully touching poem & Satsuma Press came up with this letterpress version that would be perfect for your loved one this coming Valentine’s Day.

Here’s the poem in full…


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


Via CRAFT.

Roald Dahl

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it” – Roald Dahl.

How true.

Undoubtedly, I am a big fan of Roald Dahl’s body of work. He wrote extensively from fiction to poetry to autobiographies to screenplays although he is most famous for his children’s stories (with Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Matilda & The BFG topping my list). It is my honest opinion that no library is complete without a little Roald Dahl.

Image by Amy Borrell (aka Cake With Giants), via Creature Comforts.

Dreams

I have a tendency to go off track every now & then so here's a little quote by Thoreau, that famous go-getter, to serve as a reminder to LIVE my dream instead of just dreaming my life away. Hope it helps you too :)

The Summer Day

Photo I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Dan[Durango99] on Flickr

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

The Summer Day is a poem I just discovered by Mary Oliver that has given me goosebumps. Hope you enjoyed it.

Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Image via We Heart It.

Haruki Murakami

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do - Haruki Murakami 

Image via We Heart It.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Via Happiness Is.