#beau

I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-forgetfulness, I again tasted Joy. ... One thing, however, I learned, which has since saved me from many popular confusions of mind. I came to know by experience that it is not a disguise of sexual desire. ... I repeatedly followed that path - to the end. And at the end one found pleasure; which immediately resulted in the discovery that pleasure (whether that pleasure or any other) was not what you had been looking for. No moral question was involved; I was at this time as nearly nonmoral on that subject as a human creature can be. The frustration did not consist in finding a "lower" pleasure instead of a "higher." It was the irrelevance of the conclusion that marred it. ... You might as well offer a mutton chop to a man who is dying of thirst as offer sexual pleasure to the desire I am speaking of. ... Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pleasure #beauty

Everything occurs for good, in everything there is good and in everything there is beauty... ↗

— Radostin Chernev

#beauty

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#evil #good #beauty

Let others see their recreation, in beautiful songstresses and wine, What we offer are literary gatherings and books, As recreations of the minds. ↗

— Ibn Durayd

#beauty

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#beauty

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#beautiful #corners #cow #droop #eyes

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#men #respect #beauty

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting. ↗

— Kesha

#beautiful #every #interesting #life #makes

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#true-beauty #beauty

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#hole #love #beauty