Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
Trust is both an attitude and an action.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
In the most general sense, talent is the sum of a person’s abilities – his or her intrinsic gifts, skills, knowledge, experience, intelligence, judgment, attitude, character, and drive. It also includes his or her ability to learn and grow.
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places
I bet if she became my fiend, my luck would finally change.
I look back at Danny and I think about what Ginny said to me: Friends act like friends. My stomach tightens.
Fire false friends. They are in to fast-forward your fall and failure.