#diamonds

Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come out from there and are put on display for their beauty; does anybody stop to evaluate the diamond based upon all the shit it's been through and say "Remember that disgusting hole it used to be in? I bet it was hell in there!" No, people don't remember where a diamond has come from; they just see the beauty of it now. But it wouldn't have become so beautiful, you know, if not for all of that! So why should we look at other people, or at ourselves and evaluate them/ourselves based upon their/our pasts? Shouldn't we forget that? And only see the beauty that is in front of our eyes? Whatever it was, it made you beautiful! And that is what matters! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgetting-the-past #our-pasts #seeing-the-beauty-now #the-beauty-in-front-of-you #the-past

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust. ↗

— Owl City

#dreams #dust #inspirational #dreams

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake. ↗

— Debra Messing

#fascinated #hands #i #put #shake

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#coal #diamonds #jobs #more #nothing

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#away #diamonds #explained #like #out

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? ↗

— Lou Reed

#chorus #diamonds #i #mean #mind

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#cars #diamonds #furs #human #human beings