Quotes About Beauty

We have to make this world a beautiful place, not by conquests, not by capturing, but by captivating the world and embracing the world like a garland.

Velliangiri" literally means "silver mountain

Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.

One day I saw a flower and began to contemplate its fragrance and beauty. As I thought more deeply, I recognized the creator of such wonders- not with my mortal eyes but with my spiritual eyes. This filled my heart with joy, but my joy was still greater when I recognized that same creator at work within my own soul. How wonderful is God, separate from creation yet ever filling it with his glorious presence.

Pearls are for tears, Erik. Didn't you know?

The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct it toward One possessing an infinite undying beauty. By misusing it and spending it on transitory beings, he has done wrong and suffers the punishment for his fault through the pain of separation.

Now I would tell all those who wish to truly see the blossoms to cast off the world and live like me among the mountains

How might I climb from the valley up over dripping boulders to tread the mountain clouds of that far peak?

It was not for moon gazing I came into Mount Yoshino yet seeing it I grieve over the sad world

How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion

Why does my heart still cling to the blossoms though I thought all attachments long gone?

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill.

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branches To point me to blossoms-- Which now are everywhere and I can Go where I've never been before.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

Toda poesia é uma ontologia.

To take a task that could be accomplished by pushing a button or flipping a switch, and instead complete it only after spending a full day grunting and groaning from the physical effort, and all in the name of the beauty of sweat and the joys of labor—now that is a stupid idea.

Ferryman, for tea, scoop up those reflections of cherry blossoms.