“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.” MindLightJoyArtistEmotionCreativitySadnessShadowLaysColourCanvasMasterpiecePigmentChiaroscuro Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea
“We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.” HeartRealDreamRealitySeemsEmotionShadowEternityReal LifeSubstanceTouched Book:Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne Source: Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne