Quotes About Beauty

When I get lulled and dulled into that place, it's usually because I haven't been spending unrushed time with you—gazing upon your beauty and bounty, reflecting upon your glory and grace, listening for your singing and rejoicing over me in the gospel.

Jesus, I thank you for the gift of another day. Please fill my gaze with your beauty, my mind with your truth, and my heart with more of the gospel—much more of the gospel. If the main strategy of the kingdom of darkness is to keep unbelievers in the dark about the gospel of your glory and grace, why would I think evil would choose some other tactic for believers? So as I pray for my unbelieving friends today, I also pray for myself.

To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.

Rain comes down through the alders, Its low conductive voices Mutter about let-downs and erosions And yet each drop recalls The diamond absolutes.

Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight

Useless to think you'll park and capture it More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. "Postscript

What do we say any more to conjure the salt of our earth? So much comes and is gone that should be crystal and kept, and amicable weathers that bring up the grain of things, their tang of season and store, are all the packing we'll get.

You are like a rich man entering heaven/through the ear of a raindrop.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.