#beauty

He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#beauty

and give me insults, give me economic discrimination, give me the darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books banned in libraries across america, feed the world with lies about my life and plop a second helping of oppression on my plate and thank you for not making me straight. ↗

— Michelle Tea

#beauty

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her. ↗

— Mark Twain

#love #men-and-women #beauty

Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beauty

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong! ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love #sweet #beauty

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#compassion #life #planet #resources #share

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#life #masterpiece #music #sound #ugly

Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door. ↗

— Osho

#beauty

I want to recouncil the violence in your heart. I want to recognise your beauty's not just a mask. I want to exocise the demons from your past. I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart. ↗

— Matthew J. Bellamy

#love #music #beauty

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#earth #life #nature #revelations #beauty