#if

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christian-life #christian-living #christianity #heaven #beauty

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#gazebo #life #change

The power to change is in my hands. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#change #new-life #take-charge #change

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#life #lovely #poetry #beauty

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #healing #inner-peace #innocence #life-and-death

His eyebrows pulled in. “You won’t leave me, right? Even when I’m a pain in the ass?” “I vowed in front of God – and Elvis – that I wouldn’t, didn’t I? ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #elvis #funny #jamie-mcguire #love

I wasn't sure what I'd done to deserve such a wonderful gift, and I wasn't sure if it was insolent, but I thanked God for fallen angels. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#gratefulness #inspirational #thoughtful #beauty

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#sublime #beauty

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ↗

— William Golding

#beauty