#if

I saw a woman who physically and spiritually blocked out the definition of being celestial, and replaced it with her own divine beauty. She was transcendent. She was beyond astonishing in her presence. But what she truly did, which was beyond the scope of an average woman's power, was step above the barriers of reality and illusion with her pure, majestic, and omnipotent beauty. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#beauty #goddess #women #beauty

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness. ↗

— William Saroyan

#writing #age

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#combat #values-in-life #war #warriors #age

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#humor #life #women #age

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet— ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enjoyment #fearless #happiness #life #love

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#justice #medieval-life #age

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#life #love #age

You're never too old to be young. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#life-philosophy #youth #age

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. ↗