#beauty

My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?" That uncomfortable feeling was spreading over me again. "What about them?" "The color," he breathed. "When you stand in the light. They're amazing... like molten gold. I could paint those..." He reached toward me but then pulled back. "They're beautiful. You're beautiful. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#beautiful #eyes #paint #sunlight #sydney-sage

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#ebullience #enthusiasm #individuality #life #people

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#happiness #inspirational #love #beauty

In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #beauty

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ya-teen-fiction #beauty

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#death #inspirational #life #beauty

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #love #roses #uniqueness #beauty

The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#beautiful #loss #people #strong #struggles

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#destruction #failure #beauty

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#travel #beauty