Quotes About Beauty

Strew on her roses, roses,And never a spray of yew!In quiet she reposes;Ah, would that I did too!

That sweet city [Oxford] with her dreaming spires.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies...

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.

the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.

a blossom past its perfection, shedding petals like a sad metaphor

Can something that has been broken be put back together in a way that makes it more beautiful than ever before?

wants you to be fully aware of every breath of air you take, every bite of food, every smile from a baby, every word you read, every song you hear, every kiss on the lips. God loves ordinary things.

Edwards's God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn't simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

Why did nature not ask my advice about my features?

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

A sweet attractive kind of grace,A full assurance given by looks,Continual comfort in a face,The lineaments of Gospel books;I trow that countenance cannot lie.Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

My life has taught me that there is a wealth of strength within us, there is nothing we cannot handle. Life presents it's purpose and beauty in all sorts of ways. The trick is to stay open to one's strength, to not deny or strive to prove it, but rather to simply have it

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty... Each of us is the sum of our scars.

Sometimes--as it was happening now--the music on the radio matched the rhythm of the bridge. The cables climbed toward the second arch, and she felt herself in the uncanny presence of beauty. Nothing else in her day stirred her to the contemplation of abstract ideas. The bridge was making an argument for its own soundness as she drove over it.

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.

Para el enamorado, una mujer bella es un objeto de deseo; para el eremita, una distracción; y para el lobo, un buen bocado.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures.