Quotes About Beauty

Kentucky, huh? Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

She was not supermodel beautiful, but there was something compelling about her smile.

When they told me in the hospital that Will would live, I walked outside into my garden and I raged. I raged at God, at nature, at whatever fate had brought our family to such depths. I was so furious, you see, that all around me were things that could move and bend and grow and reproduce, and my son - my vital, charismatic, beautiful boy - was just this thing. Immobile, wilted, bloodied, suffering. Their beauty seemed like an obscenity.

But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

Vedi laggiù?" Indicò le montagne che incombevano in lontananza. "È quello che sognavo fin da bambina. Io e Charley, lassù: quello è il mio paradiso, Alice. E ho la possibilità di vivere il mio paradiso ogni giorno.

I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.

I looked up through gritty eyes and there it was across the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, shining like a million jagged shards of light, awe-inspiring, glossy, impossibly condensed and beautiful, a sight that was so familiar from television and films that I couldn't quite accept I was seeing it for real.

To drobiazg. - To nie znaczy, ?e nie jest to wspania?e.

She thinks about the ways in which she has been expected to conform to some ideal that takes endless, endless effort just to stay married: keep your figure, create a perfect home environment, be interesting, have great hair every day (but none anywhere else), wear shoes that make your feet hurt, lacy underwear that cuts your hoo-ha in two, make sure your bedroom antics are porn-star level (even if your husband seems to think the act of getting a hard-on should be enough for his side).

Look outwards, Alice,' Margery would say, her voice carrying on the breeze. 'Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you – nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

I stared in disbelief at the little oasis of calm and beauty that had been created from my barren rooftop.

like brightly colored sparrows in and out of hedgerows.

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.' There was a silence before he spoke again. 'Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

Maybe that's the thing we need to understand. Some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists, that's all we can really ask for.

Look outwards, Alice," Margery would say, her voice carrying on the breeze. "Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you—nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things." For

Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

stared at her as she floated down the aisle, wondering how it would feel to be tall and long-legged and look like something most of us only saw on airbrushed posters. I

She looked like a human racehorse.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

What mother could abandon the dream that lived inside her, deny the one thing in this world she knows as certain, which is the absolute and everlasting beauty of her child?

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

Our task, wrote Einstein, is to liberate ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...

The recipe for happiness is to have just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.