Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to.”
“We'd not been given perfection, not godliness, not symmetry, not gracious measurement, not a bad hand, nor a curse; we'd not been given anything other than a life to spend together; our lives, not easy or free from pain; we'd been given only a real life, dreadfully normal and sublime, and I would no longer betray its beauty by wishing it otherwise.”
“If love is the name of the pursuit of the whole, what is the name given to finding it? I close my eyes and focus on the feeling of the world getting a little wider.”
“throughout all this, I was acutely aware of how quickly the experience of beauty dissipates and is replaced by boredom and the dullness of obligation.”
“so tenderhearted, so sensitive to life—his same receptors that were open to beauty were as open to suffering.”
“is a deft act of erasure to be told how to process a situation by a person who would never experience it.”
“We seek beauty, but our understanding of its nature is limited. We find it primarily in easy-to-appreciate human forms. As we grow older and learn more, we journey closer to the truth of beauty. We begin to perceive it more powerfully in minds than in bodies. We stay on our quest, ascending, going higher and higher in our conception of beauty. As we do, our capacity to recognize beauty grows larger. We can take in more. Our eyes adjust to the bright light of the true nature of beauty until, at last, we may be able to behold it - perfect beauty, which is "pure, clean, unmixed, and not infected with human flesh, colors, or morality." Glimpsing to at last, we become part of a bigger sum, something vast and immortal.”
“We are meant to understand the scope of the suffering while we also know we can't understand the scope of the suffering. I might shut down. I might feel numb, unable to hold it all at once.”
“Outside these walls are probing, restless streets. In here, I'm a living memory, suspended in static, cut off from the present moment. Outside the moment arrives, arrives, arrives, is arriving.”
“My father believed, along with the Greek philosophers he revered, that ignorance was, allegorically, a cave, one that we could be freed from if only someone would break our chains and walk us from darkness and into the light.”
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perfection, love, comprehension, beauty, human-experience, truth, suffering-of-humanity, memory, life, suffering, world, emotional-limit, moment
