#inspiratio

There are people, primarily women!--who are what I call 'conduits of emotion.' In their company, the half dead can come alive. They need not be beautiful women or girls. It's a matter of blood warmth. The integrity of the spirit." He turned the page of his sketch pad and began anew, whistling thinly through his teeth. "Thus an icy-cold soul, in the presence of one so blessed, can regain something of his lost self. Sometimes! ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#beauty

It’s much easier to craft something beautiful out of a pile of garbage than it is to build something amazing out of thin air. ↗

— G. Brandeis

#life #beauty

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#colours #inspirational #beauty

God wove a web of loveliness, of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all so beautiful as words. ↗

— Anna H Braach

#beauty

jeg ville gerne være højere, så jeg kunne se dig i øjnene, jeg ville gerne expandere, så jeg kunne rumme os begge, jeg ville gerne koncentrere mig, så det hele kunne nås inden for dette øje-bliks grænser, så ingen overflødige ord skulle spilde tiden med at forbinde vore afstandes sår, jeg ville gerne koncentrere mig, så ordenes mislykkede graviditeter blev afbrudt, så nye afstande døde før fødselen, jeg ville gerne være højere, så jeg kunne se dig i øjnene, jeg ville gerne indfange dine øjnes udtryk og indtryk; men afstanden er for stor, og du ser det hele fra en anden vinkel - ser ned på mit forståelsessøgende blik. ↗

— Michael Strunge

#emotional #inspirational #beauty

I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that I haven't understood enough, that I can't know enough, that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom...Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beauty

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#beauty #books #inspiration #journalism #library

No beauty product is going to give you ensurety about charm on your face. Its natural so natural ways can only help. Less tension , more laugh, more water. ↗

— Nikhil Yadav

#inspirational #philosophy #beauty

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#dreams

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#beauty