#beau

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-kind-to-others #grace #heart #helping-others #inner-beauty

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#guys #intelligence #smart #beauty

Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #hope #kindness #mental-illness #self-esteem

He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes. “You love me?” “It’s the tattoos,” I shrugged. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #jamie-mcguire #love #sweet #tattoos

Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle. ↗

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#comradeship #struggle #beauty

Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!” (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) “I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwellingplace. And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity— that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#beauty

... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#beauty

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#creativity #fashion-designer #idea #image #life

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#beauty #age

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty