Quotes About Beauty

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

A veces son necesarios nuestros errores para hacernos más humildes, y es entonces cuando somos más útiles para Él. Para Dios nunca somos mercancía defectuosa. Él convierte nuestras cicatrices en lunares que realzan nuestra belleza.

And Iris was far too beautiful to escape the appetite of the men—or the expectation of the women, seeking respite from that most tedious and taxing of their household duties.

Why cry over dried flowers? They're meant to be straw. Why cry over miniature roses? They're meant to be small.

Let's do it on the antimacassar, on the antimacassar -from Twenty Five Haiku

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

There's more beauty on Earth than I can bear.

but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

It's strange how you never quite get used to the world at night.

when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels.

Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

Nothing could be more miraculous than the fact that we have a consciousness that makes the world intelligible to us and are moved by what is beautiful.

good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still, for years it all seemed to me to be blindingly beautiful. And it was.

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable—which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.