#beauty

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations. ↗

— George Orwell

#write #writing #beauty

Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him. Future. Hope. And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night. ↗

— Holly Cupala

#love #rain #beauty

I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t be strange after all. Would you be my best man—or, I don’t know, my best lady? ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#best-man #beauty

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here. ↗

— Trisha McCagh

#beauty

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#back #beauty #brought #child #children

I think I like you,” he said as he turned and moved to sit in the chair across from her. “What a beautiful thing to say to the woman you’re trying to seduce. ↗

— Paloma Beck

#seduction #beauty

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ↗

— Plautus

#beauty #character #comes #fortune #gift

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. ↗

— Emily Prager

#birth #every #knows #still #suffering

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#short-lived #tyranny

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ↗