#cho

Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death. ↗

— Ursula Dubosarsky

#schoolgirls #teachers #beauty

We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet. ↗

— Hilary Winston

#high-school #love #youth #beauty

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#consequences #beauty

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#body-image #choices #health #judgment #skinny

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#beauty

However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#forgiveness #beauty

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#beauty #melancholy #memoirs-of-a-geisha #beauty

Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness. ↗

— Christian Dior

#happy-thoughts #inspirational #beauty

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#arrival #attachment #belonging #completion #fullfilment

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#personality #philosophy #psychology #tom-hamilton #beauty