#beauty

Last night, instead of sleeping,he just lay behind her, listening to her breathe and thinking that sound was sweeter than any song he’d ever heard her sing. And his Stella had a beautiful voice, never heard better. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#beauty

The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón. ↗

— Susanna Tamaro

#beauty

Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice. Am I going too fast for you? The almond eyes see out through their sleepy epicanthic fold. Trusting and calm, if a flicker from slowness, a further flicker from stupidity. Settled in slow-motion beauty, heart-breaking beauty. ↗

— Craig Raine

#down-syndrome #beauty

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

(sinä olet) kaunein kaikista tähdistä ↗

— Sappho

#love #poetry #beauty

Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share. ↗

— Anthony Marais

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...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)... ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going in to a show. She wondered now, however, if she had treated more things as a part of herself rather than an accessory, perhaps everything would have turned out differently. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#beauty #self #beauty

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#beliefs #character #judgements #soul #spirit