#beau

This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#utility #beauty

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#beauty

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#found #girl #hungry #ireland #lost

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#margaret-cho #self-love #beauty

Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#romantic #beauty

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick... ↗

— Kami Garcia

#chooses #leads-to #road #start #beauty

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#beauty

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#imperfection #life #beauty