#beauty

Beauty and grace command the world. ↗

— Park Benjamin

#beauty

Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#sweetness #beauty

Looking at the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful girl in the room. (In the whole wide room) And when you're on the street (Depending on the street) I bet you are definitely in the top three ↗

— Flight of the Conchords

#beauty

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it? ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#timon #timon-and-eden #beauty

Правилният избор и лесният избор не винаги са едно и също нещо. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber—and if the bug thought, wow, that's beautiful, right before it was frozen forever. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#zia #beauty

But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#depression #hope #beauty

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#beauty

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#beauty

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#prosody #beauty