“It would add very much to the pleasure of life and to its sanctity if we cultivated the habit of seeing what is beautiful and divine in ordinary things, though this is not easy, because our natural tendency is to think and talk most of what is extraordinary. Let there come a vivid flash ofContinue reading “Seeing what is beautiful and divine in ordinary things”
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When you do something noble and beautiful…
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”– John Lennon
We are beautiful
“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.” ― Kate Wicker, Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
True Beauty
Popular culture makes a big deal out of what it considers physical beauty. Every day we are bombarded with messages that we are not thin enough, or too thin. Our skin is too dark or too light. Our hair is too curly, or too straight. Our eyes are the wrong color. We are flooded withContinue reading “True Beauty”
A child’s world
“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.” — Rachel Carson Fabric art available in the Espirational Gallery.
Thought for Today
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot
Thought for Today
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” ― Lauren Kate, Torment
Thought for Today
“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” –Albert Schweitzer, theologian and medical doctor
