#be

The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike. ↗

— Denton Welch

#felines #mind #people #beauty

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. ↗

— Lynn Viehl

#pnr #beauty

Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beauty

We could return from sand if we had to--form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors. ↗

— Addison Moore

#love #beauty

Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey. ↗

— Jade Youssef

#failure #journey #beauty

Although he seemed frustrated with the situation regarding Parker, I had the distinct feeling he enjoyed seeing me so happy. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#a-fractured-light #boy-crazy #cassie #friends #girls

Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit. ↗

— Baldassare Castiglione

#beauty

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#clever #woman #beauty