#sigh

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#beauty #eyes #hope #perspective #poetry

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#insight #beauty

...when I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty #love-at-first-sight #poetry-quotes-love #beauty

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do. ↗

— Ian McDonald

#beauty #blindness #seeing #sight #art

The most beautiful we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ↗

— Einstein Albert

#art

Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past the obvious and on the other side of busy. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#insightful #change

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#idealism #love #love-at-first-sight #poetry #romance

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#sigrun-gard #change

It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#insight #change