#inspiratio

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beautiful #beautiful things #best #cannot #even

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#artist #conscious #i #i am #inspirational

Ideas shape the course of history. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#course #history #ideas #shape

It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part. ↗

— Dana Candler

#beauty #christian #dana-candler #heart #inspirational

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong. ↗

— Peter King

#blocks #churches #country #god #good

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist. ↗

— Richard King

#cinema #come #else #exist #inspiration

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ignorance #knowledge #mother #which #wonder

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs? ↗

— Paulo Lins

#clarity #hellraiser #inspiration #beauty