Hot-air-balloon Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Violence, once committed, lingered behind and subtly worked on those sensitive to its ugliness.”

— Christine Feehan

“There is no beauty without ugliness, just as there’s no happiness without sorrow. We live in a world of contrasts, not absolutes.”

— Anna Zaires

“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, & Logos, still…

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

“And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense…

— Jeanette Winterson

We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers…

— Joshua Bell

“We must be careful not to recite ugliness in our hearts because it will eventually find its way out.”

— Alisa Hope Wagner

“But I see now that our future lies not in building beautiful havens from the ugliness in society, but in building a different kind…

— J.P. Delaney

“If we focus just on what's ugly and bad, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and eventually into…

— José N. Harris

“there was no good without evil, no life without death, no beauty without ugliness”

— Lisa Williams Kline

“Out of all human emotions, none is more primitive, and has a longer lasting effect on the body, than hatred.”

— Kei Ohishi

“The earliest years had been a haze of hardship . Of fear, I’ll admit it. More than that, of anger. And most of all,…

— Juliette Jones