#appreciation

If you want to find a reason to smile, to find a reason to be happy, learn to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#happiness #beauty

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#beauty #blindness #beauty

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China) ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#empowerment #equality #men #women #equality

Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome. ↗

— M.R. Mathias

#inspirational #inspirational

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#life #wonder #life

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cute #difficulties #disobedience #evidence #funny

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#art #creative-process #creativity #art

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#love #love

BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators. ↗

— Julie Saffrin

#blessbacks #inspirational #motivational #power-of-gratitude #self-help