The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and...

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even...

Nieva sobre Edimburgo el 16 de abril de 1874. Un frío gélido azota la ciudad. Los viejos especulan que podría tratarse del día más frío de la historia. Diríase que el sol ha desaparecido para...

Oh God, I don’t know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don’t, really.

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for...

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don’t consider ourselves idealistic; we’re thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

I’m basically different things to different people. If it’s a guy, I’m-a probably have my guard up because it’s a street rule that when men come around that I don’t know, I just immediately throw...

Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.

I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great...

In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe.

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to...

I’m not saying that Beautiful Peole don’t have the right to exist… I’m not saying they should be rounded up and taken to an island. I’m just saying that they are never, ever to be...

This little girl’s grown up by now,” she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life.

The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in...

I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.

The clock’s pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner coagulate into a woman’s form. She slips between the bigger, taller onlookers unnoticed...

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found...

Let’s!

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use...

By nature, I’m very care-taking. There’s something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God’s word is a life...

When you take time to study and practice the word of God, you become like a barrel of great beauty, filled with the energy drink of love with which you inspire people to inspire other...

All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it’s so far beyond fine that you know you can never go...

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

Beauty never lies in the eyes of the beholder but in the image to behold

I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

It is your daily responsibility to give your subconscious mind enough reasons to deeply perceive life as a beautiful adventure.

Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

You are beautiful. Have a day much like yourself.

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

There’s a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

…with white dawns and glaring moons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I’ve been to Africa a bunch of times and it’s just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that...

Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

I don’t like American football. I think it’s boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It’s played on a diamond.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that...

Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let’s only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint...

I’ve always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are those who are quietly unaware of their effect.

Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit… Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

I don’t think I’m an artist or that I’m doing anything superintellectual. What’s important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it’s beautiful.

I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.