#hop

It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will tell me that I'm deluded but we are all deluded in some way. The question is which is the best delusion. ↗

— Danny Scheinmann

#romance #beauty

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my! ↗

— Jean Webster

#jerusha-abbott #shopping #beauty

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#hope #hopeful #planet #space #space-travel

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#hope #suffering #beauty

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word? ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it. ↗

— Melodie Ramone

#author #hope #inspiration #art

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. ↗

— Carl Safina

#conservation #hope #nature #change

I continue to grow beautifully on my inside while the wrinkles take care of my outside’’ – Binduu Chopra ↗

— Binduu Chopra

#make-me-like-you #rajinder #saroj #spiritual #tanzania

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes. ↗

— Bryana Johnson

#christ #free-verse #gerard-manley-hopkins #poetry #the-image

How many others are out there? How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love? ↗

— Rachel Simon

#love #beauty