je ne sais quoi

Je ne sais quoi

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”      ― Socrates Emiko Davies | Florence @dhowelldesigns “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t […]

je ne sais quoi

‘The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.’   – William Morris   via:zsazsabellagio   Ralph Lauren Corsage ornament project by Joseph Chaumet in platinum, diamonds and emeralds for the Maharajah of Indore (circa 1911) at the exhibition “Modern Maharajah: A Patron of the 1930s” […]

Je ne sais quoi

by Natalia Drepina – “In the cradle of the waves” “…because when I leave you, I don’t leave you…”   — Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre c. January 1947 featured in Letters to Sartre.   Léonore Baulac and Allister Madin   The Fountain of Love by Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1785 (details) via:zsazsabellagio J.R.R. Tolkien […]

if….

if…. so many thoughts and so many possibilities…. via:it-sub-to-you via:lastdaysofmagic via:ramiyouf via:it-sub-to-you trust your soul Ph Agnieszka Lorek via:it-sub-to-you Audrey via:the-eternal via:it-sub-to-you www.tate.org Anouk Aimée, 1957 via:ramiyouf via:thevisualvamp   21-year-old Yves Saint Laurent at Christian Dior’s funeral in 1957.   https://ramiyouf   via:ramiyouf “Finish each day and be done with it.    You have done what you […]

Je ne sais quoi

“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.    It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.”   —  Steven Pressfield London Rebecca Skye Watson Leave something to the imagination. Andrea Kiss London Rebecca Skye Watson A […]

Ooooh, That French Country Charm

There is simply nothing like that French Country charm… it’s dreamy, other-worldly, simply wonderful. Le Mas de Peint A 17th-Century Farmhouse in the Camargue, France photography: Ann Street Studio, NYC “It’s the time that you’ve wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”    – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer and aviator (1900-1944) bonjourfrenchwords […]

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“I told myself if I had nothing the world couldn’t touch me.” — Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth” instagram: dreamweddings “I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.” — Warsan Shire Metropolitan Opera House 1937 Josef Hofmann Photography Damian Saca by Guillaume Malheiro […]

je ne sais quoi

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”     – Herodotus ,The Histories   Molly Bair | Valentino HC S/S 2016 ph. Sarah Moon   “The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.“   – Andrew […]