#pin

Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happinness. ↗

— Irène Némirovsky

#irene-nemirovsky #jezebel #joy #passion #beauty

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#light #others #reciprocity #sharing #beauty

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it? ↗

— Justina Chen

#self-esteem #beauty

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. ↗

— P.L. Travers

#fairytales #sleeping-beauty #beauty

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear ↗

— Taylor Swift

#happiness #inner-beauty #inspiring #beauty

Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the dawns. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#pink #the-color-pink #the-sun #twilight #beauty

A flower blossoms for its own joy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#flowers #happiness #joy #beauty

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#judgement #opinion #beauty

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness. ↗

— Gladys Taber

#beauty

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#feeling-infinite #happiness #infinite #magic #beauty