#if

la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón. ↗

— Susanna Tamaro

#beauty

The one eyed person is a beauty among the country of the blind ↗

— Arabic saying

#beauty

Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#conserve #god-given #god-given-gift #talent #beauty

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#endings #friendship #growing-up #life #change

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fragile #peace-of-mind #pleasure #treasures #beauty

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes. ↗

— Jess Walter

#beauty

...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful... ↗

— John Geddes

#cigarette #shaft #smoke #sunlight #beauty

Life is as beautiful, as you want to see it. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#life #one-s-perception #beauty

Her black is beautiful, his society is ugly. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#black-is-beautiful #society #beauty

C'est pour sauvegarder ce mystère que les hommes ont supplié longtemps les femmes de ne pas abandoner les robes longues (...) tout ce qui accentue en l'Autre la différence le rend plus désirable, puisque c'est l'Autre en tant que tel que l'homme veut s'approprier. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#objectification-of-women #patriarchy #beauty