Compilation of the Heart - 2 Chestnuts

Fall Walk:

S: "The first chestnut for me this year, gonna take it home."

10 steps later:

G: "There are some more, do you want to pick them up?"

S: "No, I'm okay, I just wanted one. - Except there is one with a heart on it..."

G: "There you go!"

S: "No waaay!"

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Compilation of the Heart - Keep the Beat!

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Always the Light. Always.

You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.

The Lake House

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Enigma

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Compilation of the Heart - Friday Night Dinner

Parsley.

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When I reached for my Heart it was a Rose

I actually dreamed line 2-5, tried to put it into words...

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Newton's Third Law: Actio - Reactio

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Compilation of the Heart - Bookmark: So (little) it is?

“...if one day you come back, I'll be waiting for you. I missed my chance to tell you something very simple: I love you. It may be too late now, but I wanted you to know.”

Missed chances. She had learned very early on what that meant. “I love you”, though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Maria thanked him for his words, noted them in her memory (one never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is), gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek and left without so much as a backward glance.

Paulo Coelho - Eleven Minutes

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Compilation of the Heart - Hidden Inside

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photo shoot, starring: orchid & tortoise Elia ♥

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Compilation of the Heart - Homework.

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Compilation of the Heart - Weighed against a Feather*

*ancient reference 

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When the Pain comes/Pictures of You

If I had grown up some other place,

with shorter hours and easier days,

I would have invented a feast for you,

and my hands wouldn't hold you as they sometimes do,

so anxiously and uncouth.

There I would have dared to squander you,

you limitless present tense.

  

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours - The Book of the Monkish Life

RainerMaria Rilke, Das Stundenbuch - Vom mönchischem Leben

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Searchin' our Hearts for so Long

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Compilation of the Heart - merci en rose

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Compilation of the Heart - If we tame each other

"To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 

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Within

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Bitter? Moi?!

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Hello. I'm Johnny Cash.

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Compilation of the Heart - Draw the Curtains

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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval-cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

C.G. Jung

Dreaming we know what what the thinking brain won't allow...
  

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Everything.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives.

But women when they love give

Oscar Wilde


 Lyrics Translation (better translation of the title: My entire heart is yours)

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So raise your Glass if you are Wrong

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, 
'This is the problem I want to have.'.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Let our scars fall in love.”

Galway Kinnell

What I always say... gotta find the one you want to be unhappy with, being happy is a piece of cake.

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Tao

Life is difficult, because

everything can be split in two, but not everything doubled.

we balance what we give, not what we take away.

we can say where something was found, not where it was lost.

“here” is one, but “away” is many.

we settle for the path of least resistance, though it is only ourselves we resist.

while we head off for the sun, we forget to embrace our shadows.

we look up in envy or admiration, down with pity or contempt.

we calculate on small advantages, rather than estimating infinities.

we are so scared of ourselves, that we hide from others (locking tiny little monsters in tiny cages).

in “becoming” we're warily trying to focus the future, rather than to be.

we fail to see the ties of experience and time, but search for reasons in circles.

truth is perspective, to argument is to blindfold it.

we understand what we know, not, know what we understand.

we confuse giving with help, and acceptance with recognition.

we treat others as means, not as reasons.

we translate value in prize, not meaning.

we call us good if we do “good”, if we do harm we call it necessity.

a hello is always beginning, not all goodbyes reconciliation.

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Insight of the Day

or how Twain puts it:

"Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold."

Mark Twain

If things break, get dented, can't keep pace or the form starts following another “function” -
They weren't made to.

Though Michelangelo could find “in every block of stone” a statue, sculpturing it till "the skin showed", he couldn't make it breathe or its heart beat.

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Compilation of the Heart - Hoppla!

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Compilation of the Heart - "if you do not carry them within"

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Compilation of the Heart - I went 1039 km for an answer and all I got was a Lousy movie quote.

♥ 

Marilyn Monroe

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Compilation of the Heart - Snoopy Cuore Peloso

I couldn't get a better picture, but it really looks like a heart. 

             

Magari serve un po' di pettinare. ☺

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Another one Bites the Dust

“The first time someone shows you who they are,
believe them.”

Maya Angelou


it's just easier, you know

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Wild World

 Es ist sehr wichtig, 
dass wir nicht dort einen halben Schritt nach vorn machen,
wo es gilt, zwei bis drei Schritte zu machen.

Boris Yelzin

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Es gibt einen bestimmten Punkt im Leben, 
an dem muss man aufstehen und sagen:
Ja, genau das will und muss ich tun.

Brandford Marsailis

There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

Brandford Marsailis

* Translation:

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The Moment chose Us

♥

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”

Kahlil Gibran

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Domus Aurea - Night.

Eine Welt zwar bist du, o Rom, doch ohne die Liebe   

wäre die Welt nicht die Welt, wäre denn Rom auch nicht Rom.  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Römische Elegien I

Though you’re a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,   

The world isn’t the world, and Rome can’t be Rome.                              ❘⟲

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Roman Elegies I

... so it is said...

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