Quotes About Beauty

Es una simple cuestión de estética. Eso es lo que se pretende: la belleza. No se trata de transmitir ideas. Eso era antes. Ahora se persigue... —El poeta agitó las manos en el aire—. La hermosura..., incluso en la muerte. Lo único que tiene importancia es eso: el arte. El arte por el arte. No existe institución, ni territorio, ni autoridad ni sentimiento que venga a imponernos una sola letra.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I can't listen to music often. It plays on my nerves; it makes me want to say silly, tender things and stroke the heads of people who, living in a dirty hell, can yet create such beauty.

I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright.

It was April. The sun washed the balconies, April.

we cannot waste our time believing we can achieve an ideal self or community. all we can do is attempt to live well, in right relation... pursuing a social order that preserves and protects the integrity, resilience, and beauty of everyone...a commitment to generosity and mutuality.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Estar en la cumbre es estar seguro de que el futuro no será nuestro por mucho que el presente lo sea, pero no deja de ser bello.

líneas de Tolstói, o hayas escuchado una de las grandes piezas musicales, o hayas visto un cuadro o al menos su reproducción. No olvides el sueño que ha renacido.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

11 The uguisu or warbler, sometimes called the nightingale of Japan.

Fortunately Mercy was not so rare as it was beautiful, for it is universally true that "The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring." "Bushi no nasaké"—the tenderness of a warrior—had a sound which appealed at once to whatever was noble in us;

Ritterlichkeit ist eine Blume, die auf dem Boden Japans nicht weniger heimisch ist als ihr Symbol, die Kirschblüte. Sie ist kein vertrocknetes Blatt einer uralten Tugend, die im Herbarium unserer Geschichte verwahrt wird, sondern ein lebendiges Etwas von Schönheit und Macht, das unter uns weilt.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.

Now I know, a refuge never grows from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.