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The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#beautiful #loss #people #strong #struggles

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#destruction #failure #beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#travel #beauty

Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#guns #power #beauty

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ↗

— David Richo

#inspiration #pain #psychology #relationships #therapy

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #poetry #women #beauty

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#self-esteem #self-image #beauty

By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#romance #sookie-stackhouse #vampire #beauty

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#women #beauty

And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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