#beauty

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#corruption #loss #me #money #only

This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

#beauty

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#could #feedback #funny #got #grew

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#facade #free #truth #beauty

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#down #i #importance #kurt #minimalism

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#great #having #i #i think #learn

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#dark #find #itself #light #only

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#become #being #better #good #i

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing? ↗

— Tessa Dare

#character #beauty