She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

If you lock the door on sorrow, how will it leave your heart?

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

That’s the problem with the world, ” he said. “You save it today, and tomorrow it’s gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It’s like a Kardashian.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.