Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
— Sara Teasdale · Beauty
The World Motivation
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
— Sara Teasdale · Beauty
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Life is but thought.
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
You will recognize your own path
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.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
As a Black woman, I felt my looks would always be challenged, and it's a matter of always showing up and being perfect. It's not that I don't think that I'm enough. It's not that I don't recognize that my qualifications far exceed my beauty. But to minimize some of the chatter, I'm cognizant of it.