The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
--Oscar Wilde
+
The Nave Vault, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, 1959 (Taken by Edwin Smith)
(Source: mammarygems, via wendellcole)
+
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. by: Henry David Thoreau
+
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. by: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
(Source: thechocolatebrigade, via absea)
