Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is the externalisation of Harmony, and Harmony is the co-ordinated working of all the powers of Being, both in the individual and in the relation of the individual to the Infinite from which it springs; and therefore this Harmony conducts us at once into the presence of the innermost undifferentiated Life.

Her mirror was her only intimate, and she wanted its reflection to be the single most important statement she cared to make.

I AWAKENED THAT MORNING to birdsong. It was only the little yellow bird who lives in the locust tree outside our bedroom window,

Sweet April showersDo spring May flowers.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing—and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go,—doesn't it?

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

It was Virgil's country and there was a wind that seemed to rise from the fields and descend upon us in a long Virgilian sigh, for the land that has inspired sentiment in the poet ultimately receives its sentiment from him.

Wir kommen aus einer Welt, in der wir unglaubliche Maßstäbe der Vollkommenheit gekannt haben, und erinnern uns deutlich der Schönheiten, die wir nie festzuhalten vermochten, und kehren wieder in jene Welt zurück.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

I didn't realize all that was going on that we didnt notice. Goodbye, world Mom, and Pop. Goodbye, the clock is ticking. And mommas sunflowers, and food, and coffee, and new iron dresses, and hot baths, and sleeping, and waking up. Oh, Earth, youre too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

You see, I think he could've helped me... face what was to come later in my own life. He had the secret, see? The secret of loneliness. How to live with it, how to wrap it around your body and still be able to make beautiful, colorful things, like he did with those balloons. And he could've taught it to me, if only I'd asked.

Children and flowers," she said. "How can anyone doubt God exists as long as there's children and flowers?

He listen something in my voice because he look up immediately. His eyes as blue as July sky. His long yellow hair fall like sunshine on his forehead and my finger burn from not touching it.

It was as if a gust of wind had blown open a window in my heart and a sweet bird had flown in and made a nest.

when they gazed at the sea, people held their heads up, and their faces became curious and open, as if they were searching for something that linked them to the sun and the stars, looking for that something they knew would linger long after the wind had erased their footprints in the dust.

Living a principled life was as much about what you didn't do as what you did. That what you rejected defined you as much as what you embraced. The whole beauty of being broken up with someone was that you didn't have to reply.

We're responsible. We have control. The clear nature of our mind is always there, waiting to be revealed when the clouds of the disturbing attitudes are dispelled. This is our human beauty; this is our potential.