#beau

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress. ↗

— Halle Berry

#beautiful #being #called #extremely #flattering

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #girl #mirage #society #beauty

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#beauty

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #beautiful #difficulty #like #looking

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#own #solitude #strange #very

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#i #particularly #think

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#charms #husband #lover #power #terrifies

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#belief #doctrine #everything #including #optimism

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #beauty

Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look! ↗

— Anne Bishop

#love #waiting #beauty