Quotes About Beauty

the picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own, precisely in order to reflect life'.

Nada es tan melancólico como la muerte de la belleza.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

Few of the Arabs could read, but beauty of speech was a virtue which all Arab parents desired for their children. A man's worth was largely assessed by his eloquence, and the crown of eloquence was poetry.

Active and Passive Perfection are the Taoist equivalent of the sufi terms Majesty and Beauty.

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

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

our Lord God is an artist like unto none…

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

De la difficulté naissent de belles choses.

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I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.

Is it not a magical thing, this life, when just a little ash, cinder, and unclear water can arrange themselves into a beautiful old woman who sways, lifts, kisses, loves, sickens, argues, loses, bears up under it all, and, wrinkling, still lives under all that and yet feeds the Holy in Nature by just the way she moves barefoot down a path?

Other than her daughter, there was no woman more beautiful than the Moon. And besides Old Man Fire, there was no one on earth as old as she. But the Moon was the first of those kind of women for whom age is more a sculptor, carving the young girl's original smoothness into a more complex and deeper beauty.

Space is as important as content, and silence as important as singing. Our music and art should be filled with more beauty, more grace, and definitely more space. In the layer beneath the text God speaks to us; in the silence we hear God's heartbeat;

beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.

She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.

Woman, a pleasing but short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed. - Mary Leapor, 1722-1746 'An Essay on Woman' Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. - Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 'The Latest Decalogue

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.