“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”
— Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics
Crystal Liu (Canadian, b. 1980), the lake, “fill up”, 2019. Gouache and watercolour on paper, 102.5 x 102.5 cm.
Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass
[Text ID: “Do I contradict myself?
Very well then….I contradict myself;
I am large….I contain multitudes.”]
“Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.”
— Vincent van Gogh (via quotemadness)
“What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich, from Dark Fields of the Republic (1995).
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
— Anaïs Nin (via quotemadness)
I’ve never understood why people think that the situation with our mother earth is a joke?!
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