Hey you. Yes you. Stop being unhappy with yourself. You are perfect. Stop wishing you liked someone else, or wishing people liked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Beautiful Mystery Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #8: "Do you know why our emblem is two wolves intertwined?" Gamache shook his head.… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They’re out there… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I want to marry you, Malda - because I love you - because you are young and strong and beautiful - because… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“« Previous | 1 | 2 | Next » A great deal has been written about human beauty, and I shan’t be… — Stanka Gjurić Copy Share Image
“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Your beauty is unspeakable. Your love is inescapable. And I have fallen deep for you. The heavens twilight stars, Lit up the… — Charming Edwin Copy Share Image
“If beauty is pain — let me get lost in it. If you’re my salvation — I want to earn it. If… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“And the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures, that are as good as… — Charles Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to… — Nanette Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Each time Nate saw her, Elisa’s beauty struck him anew, as if in the interval the memory of what she actually looked… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“His breath halted as he stared at her. Why hadn't he seen it before? The woman in his carriage, the one who'd… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Forgetting that beauty and happiness are only ever incarnated in an individual person, we replace them in our minds by a conventional… — proust Copy Share Image
“Beautiful was it to mark how the poorest began to improve in personal appearance immediately after they came to our Class; how… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Do you know what a summer rain is? To start with, pure beauty striking the summer sky, awe-filled respect absconding with your… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to… — Donella H. Meadows Copy Share Image
“What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Her beauty is not just—or even primarily—physical. In her face, I see her wisdom, her compassion, her courage, her eternal glory. This… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“i am standing upon the seashore. a ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and… — Chirag Tulsiani Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness. The frail beauty of the world takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods, past the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“She is sixteen and her skin is the darkness before the black, the plum of the day’s light, her breasts like sunsets… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
