#inspirational

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy. ↗

— David Sheff

#beauty

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you new hope and purpose. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#change

You don't know, oh, oh You don't know you're beautiful. ↗

— One Direction

#one-direction #song-lyrics #what-makes-you-beautiful #beauty

She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that. ↗

— Lisa Genova

#inspirational #life #beauty

Life is beautiful, terms and conditions applied ↗

— S. Nirmal

#life-lessons #motivational #beauty

What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. ↗

— David Zindell

#transhumanism #inspirational

Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt. It just has to be. ↗

— David Levithan

#inspirational #life #love #relationships #beauty

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#viewpoint #beauty

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present? ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#inspirational