#sing

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. ↗

— Rebecca Johns

#blessing #curse #beauty

The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#blessing #character-building #inner-beauty #inspiration #beauty

Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was the free-enterprise way of handling beauty that threatened to get the upper hand. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art #art

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly. ↗

— Jim Otto

#everyone #game #lightly #never #never take

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gratitude #happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#beautiful #blessing #blindness #description #guilt

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business ↗

— Martin Cohen

#business

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. ↗

— Chico Marx

#i #kissing #mouth #whispering

It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#befall #captive #could #custody #fascinating

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#arising #dangers #foolish #freedom #gains