#image

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#amount #bombarded #days #get #hard

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#easy #find #images #more #offer

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#filters #his #own #past #prism

The human body is the best work of art. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#beauty #body #body-image #dancer #desire

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #body-image #comfortable #happiness #imperfection

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #class #dressing #fashion-designer #image

their heart grew cold they let their wings down ↗

— Sappho

#defeat #giving-in #giving-up #imagery #poetry

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit