#beauty

If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow. ↗

— Stephen Cosgrove

#lesson #nature #beauty

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#art

I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light! ↗

— Valerie Martin

#inspirational #jekyll-and-hyde #life-and-living #light #beauty

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#beauty

Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#love #love-story #magic #beauty

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#compassion #embrace #free #nature #beauty

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape. ↗

— Cheryl-Ann Webster

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#book #books #comes #deep #easy

Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion. ↗

— Libba Bray

#women #beauty

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy