#beau

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#inspirational #truth #beauty

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#purpose #beauty

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#beautiful place #being #bore #earth #feeling

You’re beautiful, Finnie, but by the gods you have never been more beautiful than you are right now, spread before me, wrapped in my wool and filled with me ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#possessiveness #romance #sweet #beauty

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#beautiful #christians #evening #good #i

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#advent #beautiful #celebrate #every #god

I was thinking, ‘Highly fuckable intern, twelve o’clock. Disengage, soldier. I repeat, disengage. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#beauty

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#been #gift #given #greatest #inner

"that moment... that moment out there?" Blake pointed at the bed of army jacket, grass, and mint. "I've pictured it in my head for months. Months! I knew it would never really happen, but it kept me going. The beautiful, smiling girl would look at me like a man-a man worthy of her body, worthy of her kisses. Do you realize what a fool I am for hoping?" ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#beauty

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#beauty