#beauty

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate. ↗

— Nick Sagan

#love #beauty

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. ↗

— Xenophon

#displays #him #himself #his #horse

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility. ↗

— Martha C. Nussbaum

#life #trust #beauty

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself? ↗

— Libba Bray

#libba-bray #queen #beauty

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humor #beauty

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. ↗

— Loretta Young

#begin #believe #charity #glamour #home

She ripped the wild bun down from the crown of her head, and then brushed her long hair with her fingers. I couldn’t stop staring while she rewrapped it and tied it back again. I imagined that this was what she looked like in the morning, and then had to think about the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan to keep my dick from getting hard. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#pidgeon #pizza #travis-maddox #beauty

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful. ↗

— Loretta Young

#achievement #beautiful #being #born #personal

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#celebrity-culture #celebrity-gossip #celebutard #dark-humor #fake

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#happiness #idiots #intelligence #life #beauty