#beau

Правилният избор и лесният избор не винаги са едно и също нещо. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber—and if the bug thought, wow, that's beautiful, right before it was frozen forever. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#zia #beauty

But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#depression #hope #beauty

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#beauty

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#beauty

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#prosody #beauty

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while ↗

— Don Marquis

#life #beauty

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill. ↗

— Eileen Favorite

#books #fiction #on-fiction #beauty

Beautiful," Grillo said. "Would Swift approve?" "Fuck Swift." "Somebody should have. ↗

— Clive Barker

#beauty

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#choice #life #relaxing #suffering #beauty