#beau

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do." Afterword by the Author(c)1993 ↗

— Toni Morrison

#the-bluest-eye #toni-morrison #beauty

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#being #harmony #you

Everyone says the Summer Queen is stunning, beautiful, absolutely captivating. Yeah, I guess she is, but so is a volcanic eruption ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#robin-goodfellow #the-iron-fey #beauty

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. ↗

— W.B.Yeats

#poetry #beauty

When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters. ↗

— Ilene Beckerman

#makeup #women #age

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#humanity #beauty

We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy. ↗

— L.A. Meyer

#sailing #sea #ships #beauty

Lovers Don't tell all of their Secrets. They might Count each other's moles That reside in the shy Regions, Then keep that tally strictly To themselves. God and I Have signe a contract To be even more intimate than That! Though a clause Mentions Something about not drawing detailed maps To all His beautiful Laughing Moles. ↗

— حافظ

#hafiz #beauty

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#earth #nature #strength #beauty

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#passive #beauty