Cian McCarthy
@arealmofwonder
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"What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it." ~ Gabriel García Márquez The Path through the Meadow 🎨 Ilya Repin (1879)
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." ~ Dinah Maria Craik 🎨 Camille Pissarro (1881)
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence." ~ George Eliot Irené (1862) • Sir John Everett Millais
"At the end of all wrong roads..." • Siegfried Sassoon •
A commissioned portrait of the lovely Zoe 🐾🥰 - soft pastel pencils on pastelmat paper .
Your Mid-Week Treat of Interesting Words 🤓 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D
"Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the Sovereign Spirit will accept thy ransom." ~ Margaret Fuller A Path in Louveciennes, Evening 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1876)
"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand." ~ Søren Kierkegaard The Path through the Woods 🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1880)
4 Worthwhile Poetic Snippets 🔥 Pick your favourite... A • Hopkins B • Emily Brontë C • D.H. Lawrence D • Dickinson (Repost to spread the magic ✨️)
From 'Open House for Butterflies' by Ruth Krauss. Illustration by Maurice Sendak.
