#harm

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ↗

#charm #desirable #forbidden #makes #unspeakably

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#beauty #between #count #harmony #inside

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#life #wisdom #life

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#except #harmful #into #mind #nothing

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charms #city #city people #country #fuss

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#charming #connery #day #even #first

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#charms #husband #lover #power #terrifies

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#guess #harm #least #patient #physician

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#artist #chords #draw #harmonies #his

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ↗