White Winter Hymnal

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Buon ascolto :)

Olympics

As in the Olympic Games it is not the most beautiful and the strongest that are crowned but those who compete (for it is some of these that are victorious), so those who act win, and rightly win, the noble and good things in life.
Aristotele

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

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.

Sweet Easter

Life is like chocolate, it’s the bitter that makes one appreciate the sweet.
Xavier Brebion

I wish you a sweet Easter :)

Illusions

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

Cry

It's hard to make people laugh today. It is much easier to make cry: an onion is enough.
Cesare Marchi

Appearance

The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran

Ice

I have observed that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
Bat Masterson

Button

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal — no one will see it. But when a button is missing — everyone sees that.
Erich Maria Remarque

Drawing

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Vincent Van Gogh

A new year is blooming

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

Sweet Christmas

I wish you a sweet Christmas :)

Christmas tree

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree.  In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
Larry Wilde

True friends

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Home sweet home

This is the true nature of home — it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
John Ruskin