#beauty

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#humanity #nora #warm-bodies #zombie-apocalypse #beauty

I don’t understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you’re so fucking confusing I don’t know which way is up.” “I don’t understand you, either. You’re supposed to be Eastern’s ladies’ man. I’m not getting the full freshmen experience they promised in the brochure,” I teased. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #funny #jamie-mcguire #sweet #travis-maddox

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #beauty

You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#beauty

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#beauty

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#beauty

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#beauty #chanel #chic #creative #designer

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#laughter #love #beauty

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. ↗

— Kakuzō Okakura

#tea #teaism #beauty