#beau

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#disaster #beauty

One autumn night the yound deciple woke up crying. The master found this strange and asked him: "Was it a nightmare?" "No", he said. "Was is a sad dream?" "No master, The Dream was so beautiful." "Then why are you so sad?" The young deciple wiped away his tears and answered softly: "Because the dream I had never comes true" ↗

— Chinese story

#beauty

It came on slowly, like the tide filling up the entire shore before you even realize it's coming in. ↗

— Jennifer Shaw Wolf

#beauty

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women? ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#beautiful women #full #just #me #women

A women's greatest asset is her beauty. ↗

— Alex Comfort

#asset #greatest #greatest asset #her #women

...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#beauty

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own... floor. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#humor #life #beauty

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. ↗

— William Congreve

#beauty #cannot #courage #dare #narrow

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing. ↗

— Didi Conn

#child #comes #delicious #felt #how

I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it.  Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true.  I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison.  So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inner-glow #richelle #richelle-goodrich #spark #beauty