#quo

The funny thing about courage is that it is often more of an internal journey than it is an external challenge – thought it may present as one ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#courage

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#art #beauty #complaint #dejan-stojanovic #literature

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #earth #french-riviera #humans #ivory-coast

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those inner parts of yourself, without damaging the psyche, that determines whether the beauty is experienced and expressed and shared with others or, in fact, becomes the death of the self and Soul and psyche. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#on-writing #powerful #self #soul #transformative

The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life’s earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded that, whatever hardship may be placed before us, it is our choice always to return to a place of love and gratitude and to give thanks for all that still remains. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#gratitude #honor #hope #inspiration #inspirational-quote

As one looks with the beautiful eyes upon a soul . . . Only God is perfect ↗

— Edna Stewart

#beauty

all theories like cliches shot to hell, all these small faces looking up beautiful and believing; I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but believe is a graveyard. we have narrowed it down to the butcherknife and the mockingbird wish us luck. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#fire #luck #poem #quote #beauty

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#egotism #inspirational-quotes #beauty

What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves? ↗

— Monica Dumont

#beauty-in-everything #beauty-in-mind-and-body #beauty-quote #peace #beauty

Conscious positive wording assists us in maintaining our joy and a positive outlook on life. It allows us to make the choice to be consciously joyful and consciously grateful for all life experiences. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#conscious-positive-wording #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #life-experiences