#beauty

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#equality #feminism #gender-norm #inspirational #social-norm

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#aphrodite-s-playground #beauty #cyprus #fes #fez

What's wrong with you? I look at you and I find nothing in you but two eyes like all eyes, a mouth lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful, a body just like those that have slipped beneath my body without leaving any memory. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#goodbye #beauty

An ‘eye for an eye’ shall leave you all blind. It’s sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#strength-and-courage #strength-of-character #strength-through-adversity #beauty

The seeming paradoxes of beauty and truth collide and individuality emerges from the debris. We spend our lifetimes dusting it down. ↗

— Martin Cosgrove

#beauty

Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal. ↗

— Kimberly Lauren

#beauty

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#inspirational #personal-growth #beauty

But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#devotion #beauty

...This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet, He is still a friend and He shouts it out, "You're my friends, don't you understand that? We're brothers. I'm not...I don't hold hell in my hands. I am not threatening you. I love you. I want you to enjoy life together with me. ↗

— Elder Porphyrios

#christian #christianity #friendship #love #orthodoxy

...Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ. ↗

— Elder Porphyrios

#christian #christianity #friendship #love #orthodoxy