#insp

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#life #loving #strength-of-spirit #beauty

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#chewing #chewing gum #close #device #gum

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#connection #happiness #inspiration #love #religion

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#beauty #inspirational #true-beauty #beauty

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know? ↗

— Jello Biafra

#butts #election #every #get #got

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christians #church #commandments #faith #inspirational

Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy. But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#memories #beauty

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#beauty

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#beautiful #beauty #chanel #chic #designer

Even though the circumstances surrounding your conception may make you wonder whether your life was just some accident, let me tell you that your life is no accident! Before you were born, before you were even conceived, God already knew you. He knew your likes and dislikes, your passions and desires. He also had in mind a specific purpose for bringing you into the world, otherwise you would not exist. ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

#inspirational