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One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose. When I inquired what had caused the blight, "My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied. ↗

— Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#life #poetry #sadness #beauty

The very fact of snow is such an amazement. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#beauty #life #snow #beauty

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#kami-garcia #pretend #beauty

But I'm here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth. Your soul is a living, breathing, organic thing. No different than your heart or your legs. And just like your heart keeps your blood oxygenated and your legs keep you moving around, your soul gives you the ability to do amazing, beautiful things. ↗

— Andrew Kaufman

#inspirational #life #soul #beauty

Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive. ↗

— David S.E. Zapanta

#death #life #love #undead #zombies

Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life #paranormal-romance #life

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#business

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor #live-in-the-moment #business

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger ↗