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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#travel #beauty

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ↗

— David Richo

#inspiration #pain #psychology #relationships #therapy

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#self-esteem #self-image #beauty

And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#beauty #beauty

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#earth #home #love #death

His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #death

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#forever #love #death

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#sadness #death

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. ↗

— Mary Renault

#the-persian-boy #death

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#beauty #flawed #imperfect #love #self-love