#beauty

I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively and good-natured when I have His Spirit…. That arises from the perfection of His attributes; He is a jovial, lively person, and a beautiful man. ↗

— Heber C. Kimball

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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. ↗

— Elif Batuman

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You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. ↗

— Sara Humphreys

#love #romance #untamed #william-and-layla #beauty

...aim to look good naked...and more often than not, everything will fall in place - fitness, health, you name it! ↗

— The Fitness Doc

#beauty-in-mind-and-body #fitness #health #beauty

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty. ↗

— Anthony Hope

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and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#beauty #similes #beauty

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure. ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

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...people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and upside down for what they are. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#horses #religion #beauty

There is no satisfaction in eternity,' she said. 'There is only loss. ↗

— Elizabeth Fama

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