#beauty

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#defenses #roses #thorns #beauty

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#breathtaking #congress #country #embodied #landscapes

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#beauty

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#life #beauty

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. ↗

— George Orwell

#beauty

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! ↗

— Mario Puzo

#beauty

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#beauty

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#confusion #created #earth #explaining #face