#beauty

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. ↗

— Mark Twain

#memory #beauty

If everyone in the world did all he was capable of on his own plot of land, what a beautiful world it would be! ↗

— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#social #beauty

Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#beauty

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but “fuck” was one of them—the very word she’d hoped to hear. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humour #beauty

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #god #logic #reason #religion

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms... ↗

— John Geddes

#rain #storms #transformation #beauty

Us. We. Two of the most beautiful words in the English language. . . ↗

— Marianne Evans

#beauty

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task. ↗