#r

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty

Xander: Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#motivation #pep-talk #motivational

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. ↗

— Christopher Buckley

#humor #right #thank-you-for-smoking #wrong #beauty

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#happiness #happy #world #beauty

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein) ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#art

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#beauty

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth. ↗

— Connie Willis

#sacrifice #freedom

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #society #freedom

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#damaged #emotions #mind #perfection #twisted

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#body #history #politics #soul #beauty