I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds. Combina de oleos.Lectio Divina,

Henry Meynell Rheam (1859 - 1920) - 

Portrait of a lady holding a bowl of violets, 1901

 Paul-François Quinsac (1858 - 1932) - Allegory of music, 1897

I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.

—

John Keats, from a letter

 Robert Barrett Browning (born 1846) - Before the mirror, 1887

 Eduard Veith (1856 - 1925) - Portrait of a mourning young woman at the organ

She loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights.
—      Charlotte Brontë

 James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836 - 1902) - In the church

I may be no better, but at least I am different.
—      Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 Ferdinand Leeke (1859 - 1923) - A woodland beauty and sheperd, 1921

I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

—

Sylvia Plath, from Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams

Frédéric Soulacroix (1858 - 1933) - Her music lesson

 Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
—      Jean Piaget

Enrique Serra Y Auque (1859 - 1918) - Lectio Divina, 1889

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
—      C.G. Jung 

 Ferdinand-Anne Piestre (Ferdinand Cormon, 1854 - 1924) - Javanaise étendue, 1875

Attributed to Massimo Stanzione (1585 - 1656) - Mary Magdalene in meditation

 I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
—      Simone de Beauvoir

 Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836 - 1911) - Dawn

 Hugues Merle (1823 - 1881) - Hebe after her fall, 1880

 Jean-Denis-Antoine Caucannier (1860 - 1905) - Galatea by the Acis river, 1883

 Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836 - 1911) - La Cigale, 1872

 Annie Lennox (active 1877 - 1882) - The dream of Kriemhild from The Nibelungenlied

 I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
—      Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

 Hans Dahl (1849 - 1937) - Bathing nymphs

 God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.
—      Saint Augustine 

François-Alfred Delobbe (1835 - 1920) - Young mother with her child

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears or the ocean.

—	Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

 

Joseph Bernard (1864 - 1933) - Water nymph

Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

—

James Dean