#ice

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

Remember that the most beautifull things in the world are the most useless. ↗

— John Ruskin

#the-stones-of-venice #beauty

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing violence, then tell me, your Majesty: is your civilized society also capable of being truly civilized and renouncing violence? ↗

— Satish Kumar

#compassion #forgiveness #justice #revenge #violence

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... ↗

— John Geddes

#ice #mirror #reflection #beauty

Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him in the Face. ↗

— Jane Austen

#beauty

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man

I'm poor, black, I may even be ugly; but dear God, I'm here! I'm here! ↗

— Alice Walker

#beautiful #the-color-purple #beauty

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#choices #truth #zombie-apocalypse #zombie-fighter-jango #zombies

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory. ↗

— E.F. Schumacher

#theory #beauty

Not the most beautiful, or artistic, or intellectual of cities in Italy, Ascoli Piceno is certainly one of the most easy going and affable, good to look at without being awesome. It is energetic and worldly, and it eats well. ↗

— Kate Simon

#guide-turistiche #beauty