Quotes About Beauty

When this body was just born, it was very light. As we grow, we tend to get weighed down by worries and lose our freshness and beauty. Mindful eating helps us regain this freshness, nourishing our spirits as well as our bodies. Eating with appreciation of our own bodies, we eat with more relaxation and joy.

If we want the lotus bud to appear, it will appear. If we want it to grow, it will grow. When the lotus flower in our heart has grown, wherever we walk the Pure Land appears.

The basic condition for us to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.

True love gives us beauty, freshness, solidity, freedom, and peace. True love includes a feeling of deep joy that we are alive. If we don't feel this way when we feel love, then it's not true love.

As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.

Meditation means being aware of what is going on – in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day thousands of children die of hunger. … Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that blossomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects of life.

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

In the garbage, I see a rose. In the rose, I see the garbage. Everything is in transformation. Even permanence is impermanent.

You cannot reach lofty heights in art if you do not first discover the unsurpassable beauty in your own heart. If you would like to play the flute truly well, you must find your true self on the Path of Awakening

The higher our degree of concentration, the greater the quality of our life. Vietnamese girls are often told by their mothers that if they concentrate, they will be more beautiful. This is the kind of beauty that comes from dwelling deeply in the present moment. When a young lady moves inattentively, she does not look as fresh or at ease. Her mother may not use these words, but she is encouraging her daughter to practice Right Concentration

When you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful. You radiate your inner peace, warmth, and joy.

Certain wondrous phenomena respond to the human need to know the infinite, truth, beauty, goodness. Others, deliberately enigmatic, remain inaccessible to our brains and hearts. Humans are much too accustomed to penetrating the universe with a narrow and limited mind, ignoring the eighty-thousand doors that are always open, at our disposal.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

If you are a poet, you will clearly see a cloud floating on this sheet of paper. Thich Nhat Hanh

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

I have lived almost seven decades. So I've had my hair journey where I wasn't comfortable with my hair.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

As a girl, I love the joy, luxury, and effortlessness of experiencing a pedicure on the go.