Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
Justina Chen
If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole?You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.
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When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
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What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
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Progress is hard on history.
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.
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He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.
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Silence, too, can be torture.
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What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.
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I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.
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There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After..I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
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My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.
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To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.
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