Quotes About Beauty

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Because a ballerina resembles a tear…

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

dilapidated grandeur of St. Petersburg,

Paintings are like children. It's nice to have them around the house, but not necessarily forever.

Oi niin mahtavaan riemunkirjavaan mekkoonsa sonnustautuneena kultainen syysrouva tanssi Pekingiin! Hän pyörähteli ympäriinsä, näytti kaikki pukunsa värit ja häikäisi ihmisten silmiä tuoksuvien sulojensa lukemattomilla mahdollisuuksilla, määrätietoisesti, hämmästyttävästi ja tyrmistyttävästi.

Life's too short to wear ugly clothes.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

I firmly believe, from what I have seen, that this is the chosen spot of all this earth as far as nature is concerned.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

...creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a forest floor newly swept by rain.

Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously. Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes. Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.

Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. —Francis of Assisi

Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names– though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them.

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Art is not in some far-off place.

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity Freedom from their Slavery The Truth in their Lies Life in their Death Beauty in their Homicidal Genocide Peace in the War Whore's evil orgy of Death and Negation Love amongst the Ruins Pleasure in my own Pain.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Ouça, Virgínia, é preciso amar o inútil. Criar pombos sem pensar em comê-los, plantar roseiras sem pensar em colher as rosas, escrever sem pensar em publicar, fazer coisas assim, sem esperar nada em troca. A distância mais curta entre dois pontos pode ser a linha reta, mas é nos caminhos curvos que se encontram as melhores coisas.