#beauty

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#connection #happiness #inspiration #love #religion

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#beauty-in-nature #science #wonder #beauty

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#last-words #beauty

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#baseless #beauty #fear #fears #going

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open. ↗

— Stephen Russell

#taoism #vulnerability #beauty

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ↗

— Elise Boulding

#frugality #happiness #beauty

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#livia-and-blake #love #romance #beauty

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself ― avoid trying to be someone you're not ↗

— Rick Riordan

#piper-mclean #the-lost-hero #beauty

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. ↗

— Simone Weil

#mysticism #beauty

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#life #beauty