#beau

If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's. ↗

— Mark Morford

#catholicism #dalai-lama #eyes #goldman-sachs #love

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #reality #beauty

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh? ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#beauty

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#beauty

She walks in beauty. (118) ↗

— Ron Rash

#irony #beauty

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #directors #movies #beauty

The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#beauty

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#beauty

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year. ↗

— Frederick Seidel

#love #poetry #beauty

If this was a movie, we would've sat down at the table with the guys and they would have learned some kind of valuable lesson, like not to judge people by how they look, or that being different is okay. And Lena would've learned that all jocks weren't stupid and shallow. It always seemed to work in movies, but this wasn't a movie. This was Gatlin, which severely limited what could happen. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty