mrs. cat and bunny toadstool

Sorrow is founded on the value of something, and pessimism upon the value of nothing.

—G K Chesterton

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

—Voltaire

Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

—Anais Nin

Then I’d say: Yes, without a doubt, this is mysticism, and it is mysticism that we need today, and it is mysticism alone that can save our society from brutalization, sensualism and utilitarianism. The most noble faculties of our soul are in the process of atrophying…We must react. We must re-cultivate in ourselves the superior quality of the soul. We must become mystics again.

—Albert Aurier