Nothing in the world pleases her so well as solitude. She is happiest alone in the country. She loves rambling alone in the woods. ~Virginia Woolf art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #ClassicLitMonday #bookchatweekly

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." Marcus Aurelius #ClassicLitMonday

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen #ClassicLitMonday

#ClassicLitMonday When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a good spin. A. Conan Doyle, Testimony of an Enthusiast. Peter Gabriel- Solsbury Hill #ProgRockCommunity

"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every morning is the world made new." L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea #ClassicLitMonday

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." W. H. Davies, Leisure #ClassicLitMonday

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ~Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë was born #OTD (1816) #classiclitmonday #bookchatweekly

All the world will be your enemy…But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. ~Richard Adams Watership Down #classiclitmonday

The journey homeward to habitual self! A mad pursuing of the fog-born elf, Whose flitting lantern, through rude nettle-briar, Cheats us into a swamp, into a fire. ~John Keats art by Arthur Rackham #classiclitmonday

"Go out of the house to see the moon, and 'tis mere tinsel: it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature #ClassicLitMonday

The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky. William Butler Yeats #ClassicLitMonday

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." J.R.R. Tolkien, The LotR, Fellowship #ClassicLitMonday

#ClassicLitMonday📚 All thoughts,all passions,all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Love 🎨 George Dawe, Genevieve

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree." Emily Brontë, Fall, leaves, fall #ClassicLitMonday

He looked kindly down on them and patted both their heads. 'This is not the sort of night for small animals to be out,' he said paternally. 'I'm afraid you've been up to some of your pranks again, Ratty. But come along; come into the kitchen.' #KennethGrahame #ClassicLitMonday

And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or October, when the wind And the light are working off each other.. 'Postcript': Seamus Heaney #ClassicLitMonday 📷 Newquay, Flaggy Shore, County Clare/Discover Ireland

If by Rudyard Kipling #ClassicLitMonday

"Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things?" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Nature #ClassicLitMonday

"Water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient." Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad #ClassicLitMonday