beautiful day

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A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.

When you wake up, take a second to think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy.

New/old outtake of Léa photographed by Marcel Hartmann, 2015

The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, it will start to feel like one.

Time spent appreciating is time worth living.

‪Kurt Markus‬

White Roses, Henri Fantin-Latour

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Les Heures Oubliées”. Chrystal Copland photographed by Stefania Paparelli for Grey Magazine

“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horror, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words.

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But they could not escape scent.

For scent was a brother of breath.

Together with breath it entered human beings, who could not defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live.

And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate.

He who rules scent ruled the hearts of men.”

– Patrick Süskind