#ace

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what’s beautiful, when the way back seems impossible. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#grit #pathway #spirit #beauty

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death #grace #joy #life #promise

The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fish #grace #gracious #true-beauty #beauty

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#beauty #grace #beauty

I see Earth! It is so beautiful. ↗

— Yuri Gagarin

#space #beauty

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny! ↗

— Kami Garcia

#aunt-mercy #beautiful-chaos #kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #generous #giving #grace

Question for your life: If your face looked like your ass, and I’m not implying it doesn’t, would you consider invading Russia in the middle of winter wearing only shorts? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#beauty #face #implications #imply #invasion

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#hope #hopeful #planet #space #space-travel