#ra

I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you." "What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny! ↗

— Kami Garcia

#aunt-mercy #beautiful-chaos #kami-garcia #margaret-stohl #beauty

There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #confidence #female-beauty #beauty

Kane wondered if any man in her life had really noticed how beautiful she was. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#beautiful #closer #dannika-dark #love #mageri

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#beauty

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is. ↗

— Katherine Boo

#morality #beauty

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers." - Aunt Marian in "Beautiful Creatures ↗

— Kami Garcia

#character-quote #librarian #novel #beauty

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#focus #humility #judgement #judgemental #self

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#friendship #separation #beauty

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#eucharist #god #liturgy #mass #sacrament

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#humor #beauty