#ture

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine... ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#children #classic #nature #spring #beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ↗

— John Muir

#beauty #body #body needs #bread #everybody

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) ↗

— Anonymous

#bible #purity #scripture #woman #beauty

Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona, Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..." "Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, Seized him with my beautiful form That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me. Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with delight in him That, as you see, it still abandons me not... ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#italy #love #medieval-literature #poetry #beauty

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan #lena #beauty

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#courage

She looked up at me, and the whole world disappeared. Like there was just us, like there would always be just us, and we didn't need magic for that. It was sort of happy and sad, all at the same time. I couldn't be around her without feeling things, without feeling everything. ↗

— Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl

#ethan #lena #beauty

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty #heavens #nature #night #night-sky

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself...... ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#future #guru #beauty

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention. ↗

— Donald Miller

#god #inspirational #mountains #nature #praise