#diam

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. ↗

— Mother Jones

#me #needed #rough #someone #teachers

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds." ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#diamonds #middle #moment #own #right

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#diamonds #enough #give #hated #his

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#around #because #care #diamond #everything

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life #moments #age

Diamonds are beautiful and sparkling because they are flawless, Utau's strong determination and her readiness make her shine, Being the way you are now, Can you possibly shine? ↗

— Dia from Shugo Chara!

#beauty

i had to came to tell you how beautiful you look. Really, Jay, you look amazing. Hard to believe the raggedy little girl who punched me in the face could grow up to look like this. ↗

— Jillian Dodd

#jj-reinolds #that-wedding #beauty

Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come out from there and are put on display for their beauty; does anybody stop to evaluate the diamond based upon all the shit it's been through and say "Remember that disgusting hole it used to be in? I bet it was hell in there!" No, people don't remember where a diamond has come from; they just see the beauty of it now. But it wouldn't have become so beautiful, you know, if not for all of that! So why should we look at other people, or at ourselves and evaluate them/ourselves based upon their/our pasts? Shouldn't we forget that? And only see the beauty that is in front of our eyes? Whatever it was, it made you beautiful! And that is what matters! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgetting-the-past #our-pasts #seeing-the-beauty-now #the-beauty-in-front-of-you #the-past

He goes on and on about war like it is something beautiful and noble, which only means he's never seen it himself. War is hideous and it leaves you covered in shit. I cannot kill anyone else. I will not. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#conscientious-objection #day-after-night #kill #killing #war