#beau

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#trust #beauty

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#light #others #reciprocity #sharing #beauty

Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told his wife he was leaving, that he was through supporting the family, that he had had enough. Just like that he fucking took off. He said he had always felt that he was a painter, so he moved to a rat-infested shithole and started painting. His wife begged him to come back, his bosses told him he was insane, he didn't care, he was following his heart. He left Paris, moved to Rouen, went from Rouen to Arles, from Arles to Tahiti. He was searching for peace, contentment, trying to fill that fucking hole he felt inside, and he believed he could fill it. He died in Tahiti, blind and crazy from syphilis, but he did it. He filled his fucking hole, made beautiful work, made beautiful, beautiful work... It takes a brave man to walk away, to care so much that he doesn't care about anything else, to be willing to obey what he feels inside, to be willing to suffer the consequences of living for himself. Every time I stand before his work it makes me cry, and I cry because I'm proud of him, and happy for him, and because I admire him. ↗

— James Frey

#passion #walking-away #beauty

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#life #beauty

Live it well and this life can be grand. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#inspirational #beauty

Wake up, Sleeping Beauty," Jace said softly from my right. "Call me that again, and I'll tell the whole Pride you sleep in Scooby-Doo underwear." "I don't sleep in Scooby-Doo underwear. Hell, I don't sleep in any underwear. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#beauty

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#beauty

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dark #defarge #inspirational #ironic #beauty

War?" Something cold touched my cheek, and I glanched up to see snowflakes swirling in a lightning-riddled sky. It was eerily beautiful, and I shivered. "What will happen then?" Ash stepped closer. His fingers came up to brush the hair from my face, sending an electric shock through me from my spine to my toes. His cool breath tickled my ear as he leaned in. "I'll kill you. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#iron-king #meghan-chase #beauty