sunday simplicity.

Style Me Pretty

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, 

and see yourself running with them.”

― Marcus Aurelius

sunday simplicity.

Style Me Pretty

“A city becomes a world when 
one loves one of its inhabitants.”

― Lawrence Durrell

sunday simplicity.

Love Made Visible via Ruffled

"Not from the past you’ll come, but from that deep

Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep:   

And I shall know the sense of life re-born   

From dreams into the mystery of morn   

Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there   

Till that calm song is done, at last we’ll share

The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are   

Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star."

- from "Idyll" by Siegfried Sassoon

sunday simplicity.

Exclamation Imagery via Weddingbee

sunday simplicity #115: if thou must love me...

Clayton Austin

If thou must love me, let it be for nought   
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,   
"I love her for her smile—her look—her way   
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought   
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought 
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"—   

Heart Love Weddings

For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may   
Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,   
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for   
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry: 
A creature might forget to weep, who bore   
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!  

Dan Aguirre via Lindsay Griffin

But love me for love's sake, that evermore   
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning