“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them. I want to be one of me.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“"There was a storm in her eyes rocky seas from a hundred stormy nights but also there was a light a warm wind from a distant shore so that's here I headed towards the light that shone in her eyes with gentle seas."”— Atticus, instagram.com
“The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity.”— Ann Frank, amazon.com
“Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you,…”— Saint Matthew, amazon.com
“Every summer morning seems to be the first in the world. Each twilight seems to be the last, solemn agony, announced at sunset by a final glow that darkens every hue. The sea is ultramarine, the road the color of clotted blood, the beach yellow. Everything disappears with the green sun; an hour late…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the…”— Theodore Roosevelt, nps.gov
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore.”— Lord Bryon, amazon.com
“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly ful…”— Kim Kiyun, rosalarian.tumblr.com
“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by…”— Lisa Unger, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them through a special lens.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.”— Oriah, oriahmountaindreamer.com
“She was dazzling — alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com