Uniquely Beautiful

Conventional beauty can be beautiful. But it can also be merely conventional and cease to be beautiful when the standard that measured it changes. Unique beauty, on the other hand, remains beautiful because its standard is forever itself. Have a great weekend, beautiful people!

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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
~Confucius

“Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
~Tupac Shakur

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep…What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
~Jean Kerr

“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”
~Edgar Allan Poe

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
~Richard Rodgers

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
~Amy Bloom

“Beauty surrounds us.”
~Rumi

About mitchteemley

Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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21 Responses to Uniquely Beautiful

  1. I love these! All so very unique in God’s purpose for them.

  2. mitchteemley says:

    Exactly, Tammy!

  3. vermavkv says:

    Very nice.

  4. Well said and shown, Mitch. My wife, the artist, thinks about this question a lot.

  5. c.f. leach says:

    Really enjoyed the eccentricity of it all. Beautiful post my friend!

  6. K.L. Hale says:

    There’s so much beauty around us! Mitch, thank you for sharing these pics and quotes filled to the beauty brim!💛

  7. Nancy Ruegg says:

    Lots of delightful and/or surprising sights here, Mitch. Think my favorite was the “musical-notes made visible.” Who knew they’d be so different from one another–and beautiful? (At first I thought I was looking at kaleidoscope images!)

  8. How very very true and great pictures too Mitch

  9. I also love this post, Mitch. Thanks for sharing the great pictures and the great quotes!

  10. The baby with the grey streak. Incredible. All amazing.

  11. gpavants says:

    Mitch,

    Beauty comes in so many forms. We just don’t always see it.

    Thanks, Gary

  12. What amazing creatures there are in this amazing world!

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