Printable Vintage Art: Woman in the Garden by Giuseppe De Nittis

Don’t wish me happiness--
I don’t expect to be happy, but it’s gotten beyond that, somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor—I will need them all.
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
― Nikki Rowe

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as a 9.5” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


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Printable Vintage Illustration: A Good Listener, 1892

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
― Ernest Hemingway

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Illustration of Victorian ladies at a social gathering; the lady in the middle quietly listening to the conversation being held by the two women on either side of her. You can download this high-res illustration as a 10” x 8.75” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Woman with Dog by Pierre Bonnard

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
― Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes

Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

Sources:
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as an 17.5” x 14” @ 300 ppi JPEG.


Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.