Quotes About Beauty

No one has ever talked to me as he did of the color blue or of golden hair curling like shavings around a reddened ear ...

I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty. Never mind whether our gods are true or not; they are beautiful, their rule is pleasant for us, and we live without care.

If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.

Niech na twym niebie nie bÄ™dzie chmur, a jeÅ›li bÄ™dÄ… to niech majÄ… kolor i zapach ró?y.

She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

S? r?mâi pentru totdeauna o omid? urât?, care se târ??te pe p?mânt, ve?nic înfometat?, nu este pl?cut. Dac? îns? omida consimte s? sufere o metamorfoz? profund?, ea poate deveni unul dintre cei mai frumo?i fluturi, liber s? c?l?toreasc? pe o pal? de vânt c?tre înaltul cerului.

I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.

There are rich counsels in the trees.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.

O, ik weet het niet, maar besta, wees mooi. Zeg: kijk, een vogel en leer me de vogel zien. Zeg: het leven is een brood om in te bijten en de appels zien nog rood van plezier, en nog, en nog, zeg iets. Leer me huilen, en als ik huil, leer me zeggen: het is niets.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.