“Self-esteem
is like plastic
It can be bent
so easily
Even if you
try to smooth out
the plastic,
there will always be a crease
where the plastic
was bent”
― Lucy Carter, 2023-12-02 15:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Because of the green-eyed one, I see red and that makes me blue.”
― Natalya Vorobyova
“Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“May is green and pink and red”
― Richard L. Ratliff
“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.”
― ...
“I follow Plato only with my mind
Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin
A little cold, however beautiful.
I am in love with what is mixed and impure
Doubtful, dark and hard to disencumber
I want beauty I must dig for, search for.
Pure beauty is beginning and not end
Begin with the sun and drop...
“There is beautiful you are."
"No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob.
"Yes," said Owen.
"No," said Marged, not so certain.
"Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes."
"Dove's eyes are small." Marged said.
"Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.” &n...
“Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.”
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“I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.”
― Elif Batuman, 2023-11-23 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to s...
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“Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say to you", "what other people think about your photo", "how many 'likes' your pictures get", "how many guys tell you that you look sexy", "how skinny can you be?". A plastic pede...
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“Always pick a redhead, Ee-oh", Manny said. "he'll give you the best fight in the world. Redhead'll never quit.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral...
“She is the nymph who keeps enticing me the sailor evey time!”
2023-11-19 14:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain...
“A nymph of the woods such as you were,”
― Mary Shelley, Mathilda Mary Shelley
“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.”
― Roman Payne, H...
“I want to paint you.'
He gently lifted me into his arms. 'Nude would be best,' he said in my ear.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and...
“It wasn't cheating if it was a job. It wasn't cheating if it was only for money. If that was all it was, taking my clothes off pushed that line, but it was not crossing it.”
― Valentine Glass, 2023-11-13 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Why cover yourself in clothing when you can wear confidence instead.”
― Nahna James, Nahna The Nudist: A Collection Of Poetry For Nudists...
“When principles guide you, the shiny stuff isn’t a distraction; it’s just a pretty thing to admire as you walk by on the path to success.”
― Richie Norton
“It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Dear ignoramuses,
Halloween is not 'a yankee holiday' celebrated only by gigantic toddlers wearing baseball caps back to front and spraying 'automobiles' with eggs. This is ignorance.
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is t...
“Tis the night—the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without,
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they—it is they!”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 2023-10-31 15:44:30 +0000 UTC
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“I'm going to take a shower," I said and prepared for the comment I knew was coming.
"You know what they say, conserve water and shower with a friend.”
― Chelsea M. Cameron, 2023-10-27 23:35:57 +0000 UTC
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“The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria C...
“...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men.”
― Daphne du Maurier
“I had come to the conclusion, that the principal alimentary matters might be reduced to the three great classes, namely the saccharine, the oily and the albuminous.”
― William Prout
“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.”
― &...
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.”
― Zeena Schreck
