#beau

Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#sex-appeal #beauty

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do. ↗

— Ian McDonald

#beauty #blindness #seeing #sight #art

no one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#beauty

That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beauty

Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive. ↗

— Jackie Sigmund

#inspirational #beauty

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish. ↗

— John Piper

#god #obedience #beauty

a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor ↗

— Matthew Hughes

#beauty

That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head. ↗

— Christopher Buehlman

#beauty

the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer. ↗

— David James Duncan

#prayer #religion #spirituality #beauty

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing. ↗

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#being #doing #plain #women #beauty