Magliano in Toscana

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard

Details

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Leonardo da Vinci

About a bee (3)

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Blake

About a bee (2)

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
Marco Aurelio

The first rose

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupèry

About a bee (1)

As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life.
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha

Fortune

Fortune loves those that have least wit and most confidence and such as like that saying of Caesar, "The die is thrown."
Erasmo da Rotterdam - The Praise of Folly
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Nel linguaggio dei fiori il mughetto è sinonimo di felicità ritrovata e di portafortuna.
In Francia è tradizione offrirlo durante la festa del primo maggio.
Secondo una leggenda questo fiore è nato dalle gocce di sangue versate da San Benedetto durante la battaglia contro il demonio.
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Venerdì questo blog ha compiuto 3 anni e io non posso far altro che ringraziarlo per le persone che mi ha fatto conoscere.

Source of pleasures

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot


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Nel linguaggio dei fiori l'orchidea significa sensualità, passione ed eleganza.

In flowers' language orchid means sensuality, passion and elegance.

Illusions

There is, perhaps, a more illusory feeling than love?
Émilie du Châtelet

A new year is blooming

That this new year that is blooming become a beautiful rose.
And his thorns don't hurt too much.

Rainy Sunday afternoon

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Delicare beauty

Women love flowers very much because, even if they are more beautiful, they wither long before and so give them the sensation that their beauty is eternal.

Anonymous

Pink rose

Do not force yourself to have friends, is better not having any than having the regret of having chosen them rashly... But when you've found one honor him with high friendship.

Silvio Pellico

Peach rose

No fire and no coal can burn as strong as a secret love, that no one knows anything.

Charles Morgan

Little things

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Georges Bernanos

Green - Thursday Challenge.

Thinking

Who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Wake up

With the spring sun natur wakes up.

Women's Day

Wishes to all women!

Beautiful

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty.

Oscar Wilde

Happy Xmas

Tanti auguri di un felice Natale a tutti!

Elena