#inspiration

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#inspirational #beauty

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#beauty

How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #opinions #self-empowerment

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #body-image #comfortable #happiness #imperfection

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#inspirational #jocelyn #love #painting #art

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish. ↗

— Garth Stein

#art

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play,can't know serendipity unless you risk. ↗

— Joan Erickson

#inspiration #life #risk #serendipity #art

Never judge a work of art by its defects ↗

— Washington Allston

#inspiration #art

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. ↗