#beauty

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#wonder #beauty

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#power #beauty

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is. ↗

— Keiichi Sigsawa

#fantasy #sci-fi #beauty

Even though I'd told her that I couldn't walk away from her, I finally realized that I loved her too much to fuck her life by staying, or to lose her completely by forcing us both to hang on until we hated each other. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#balanced #beauty #body #comes #listen

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#certainly #deserve #doors #even #got

And then there was Jacob, who stepped closer to me and then waited, letting me decide whether I would take the next step. Balanced there in indecision, it was as if the Twisted Sisters were before me, shaking their pom-poms, asking: But what is fair about staying with a guy who is ashamed to be seen with you? What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than mutual respect. ↗

— Justina Chen

#beauty

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . . ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#heart #humanity #liberty #love #machines

I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #beauty