#beauty

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. ↗

— David duChemin

#photography #photography-quotes #picture #poverty #beauty

Something about you now I can't quite figure out Everything she does is beautiful Everything she does is right Cause it's you and me and all of the people With nothing to do, nothing to lose And it's you and me and all of the people And I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you. ↗

— Lifehouse

#you-and-me #beauty

He was beautiful. I know, it’s not the manliest way to describe a guy, but in my head, it was the adjective I used most often and it fit him to a tee. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#guy #beauty

New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period. Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humour #libba-bray #beauty

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#consequences #dresden-files #fantasies #playboy #beauty

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#life #science #universe #beauty

Abby was lying weak and sick in my arms, depending on me to take care of her. In that moment I recognized that my feelings for her were a lot stronger than I thought. Sometime between the moment we met, and holding her on that bathroom floor, I had fallen in love with her. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#the-silent-blade #beauty

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship. ↗

— Juan Gelman

#the-little-prince #words #beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#beauty #flaw #itself