#rut

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#truth #beauty

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #illuminate #inspirational #saint #shine

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #eli-stock #life-lesson #overcoming-obstacles #risks

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. ↗

— Katherine Boo

#beauty

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most ↗

— David Mitchell

#beauty

All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing “Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would’ve puked if he could see it. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#human-nature #humanity #people #truth #beauty

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#beauty #catholicism #christianity #god #goodness

Do you feel that?" She asked as we watched the stars and moon illuminate the sea before us. "Tell me you feel it? that longing to not just exist, but to live and to live beautifully?" I, with a smile filled with so much truth it could move the clouds, said to her: "Of course i feel it. The heart in you, is the heart in me. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#heart #life #love #truth #beauty

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #pragmatic #serene #truth #beauty

When I say love, I mean love. ↗

— Sofía Navarro

#freedom #love #lovers #truth #beauty