#beau

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#beautiful #children #fact #god #in fact

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. ↗

— John Dryden

#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

All heiresses are beautiful. ↗

— John Dryden

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#truth #beauty

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#daily-living #life #mindfulness #miracles #perspective

turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#male-beauty #true-love #beauty

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#creation #nature #world #beauty

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#feeling #happiness #beauty

After climbing off his bike, I smacked his shoulder. “Did you forget I was with you? Are you trying to get me killed?” “It’s hard to forget you’re behind me when your thighs are squeezing the life out of me.” A smirk came with his next thought. “I couldn’t think of a better way to die, actually.” “There is something very wrong with you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#abby-and-travis #beautiful-disaster #bike #funny #jamie-mcguire