#beau

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot. ↗

— Eric Maisel

#thought #beauty

If you're looking to take a long, beautiful drive through life, you might not want to take the cynic view. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#beauty

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#death #life #the-beauty-of-life #beauty

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT) ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#beauty #lorrain #murder #vengeance #art

Write all your dreams on a paper. Make them into beautiful stories. Write like no one is watching but write because it fills the heart with joy. Write and never stop. ↗

— Rylee Dawn

#beauty

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ↗

— William Morris

#beauty

But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another, posting to different regiments, the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends "You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#friendship #serendipity #beauty

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

#beauty

I am not beautiful, I am beyond it ↗

— Anita Ounalom

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Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography has a built-in obsolescence, to ensure that as few men as possible will form a bond with one woman for years or for a lifetime, and to ensure that women's dissatisfaction with themselves will grow rather than diminish over time. Emotionally unstable relationships, high divorce rates, and a large population cast out into the sexual marketplace are good for business in a consumer economy. Beauty pornography is intent on making modern sex brutal and boring and only as deep as a mirror's mercury, anti-erotic for both men and women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#self-esteem #society #beauty