#beau

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#beauty

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. ↗

— Sathya Sai Baba

#peace #satya-sai-baba #beauty

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#sleeping-beauty #beauty

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#country #i #like #live #quiet

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #logic-of-heart #sense #words #beauty

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#beauty #beholder #eye #eye of the beholder

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#beauty

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#did #gold #got #great #hats