It's odd that while most people recognise the truth in this sentence, it changes nothing and we keep chasing. If only we could always be happy in the present. But perhaps that insatiable impulse for another condition is a requirement from evolution (or God/gods) to get us off our b-hinds. https://uk.pinterest.com/longvictorian2/leo-tolstoy/
Day: April 15, 2016
QUOTE: The nature of love, Anna Karenina
That beside the futility of attempting to change somebody, if it is not in their nature to change in that way. https://uk.pinterest.com/longvictorian2/leo-tolstoy/
11 worst couples in literature: Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky from Anna Karenina
No. 6. Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky from Anna Karenina Spoiler alert! OK - so your husband is as dull as a potato and Count Vronsky is handsome, charming and passionate. But you're in Russia and look at the calendar - it's 1873. This is not a relationship with good prospects. For Vronsky: Anna will… Continue reading 11 worst couples in literature: Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky from Anna Karenina
QUOTE: Gigantic dreams (Thomas Hardy)
Poor Jude. Life somehow got in the way. Jude was the first adult book I ever read. Bromley Public Library. A strange choice really, especially given the ending! Even so, I could tell there was something magical about it – the power of writing and dreams. https://uk.pinterest.com/longvictorian2/thomas-hardy/
A Girl Reading In A Sailing Boat (1869) by Alfred Corbould
Readers reading #1 A Girl Reading In A Sailing Boat (1869) By Alfred Corbould (1852 - 1920). A Girl Reading In A Sailing Boat (1869) by Alfred Chantrey Corbould (1852-1920). Looking at those dates, it makes the artist about 17 years old when he painted this lovely work. Alfred came from a long line of… Continue reading A Girl Reading In A Sailing Boat (1869) by Alfred Corbould
