Quotes About Beauty

We are caught together," he said, quoting Henry Beston, "in the net of life and time. We are fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

We don't need to have cancer to start to really take our life seriously and to perceive its beauty.

There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Ancient Greece was and is a muse because it was the first to recognize beauty and march towards it without fear.

We sing the greatest songs of days forgotten, and days yet to come. The music of the spheres shall fill our souls, and thus we shall become divine. For Truth. For Beauty.

At first you are awed by the splendour, by the beauty, of the planet and then you look down and you realize that this one planet is the only thing we have. Every time the sun comes up and goes down… and for us that's sixteen times a day… you see a thin, thin, thin layer just above the surface, maybe 10 or 12 kilometres thick. That is the atmosphere of the Earth. That is it. Below that is life. Above it is nothing. JULIE PAYETTE, Canadian astronaut

I must admit I hadn't realized my knees were so sexy.

What is life?" he mused. "It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Las canciones son cometas que alguien agarra al vuelo y las sostiene un rato o ya no las suelta más nunca.

David Foster Wallace believed that 'high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.' They are also, it is sad to say, an arena for the darker aspects of human nature.

Oh, I love this one. It's absolutely beautiful!" she cooed. "And you are beautiful for delivering it to me." Tom looked to the porter. The boy imagined the man had never been called beautiful before. "Did

love is everlasting… It survived rainy days to mud puddles, runny noses to snot bubbles. Having love was one thing, but true love was another… You could always go buy another box, but broken crayons still colored.

Yet about an AlphaGo move that left some commenters literally speechless, one go master, Fan Hui, said, "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move." Then, softly, "So beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

Beauty is the harvest of presence.

we have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.

Solace is not meant to be an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty, to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp nor make sense of.

I found him very sexy because I love difference. An unbearably handsome face bores me unless something beneath it surface is crooked or askew: even a broken nose or one eye slightly higher than the other, or something psychological, something unfamiliar and maybe even suspect.

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation.

If a spider walks onto your bed, you squish it. If a butterfly lands on your bed, you take a picture. Is the butterfly 'doing something to your brain'? If I didn't make myself look like this, I would already be dead. You kill everything that doesn't have pretty wings.

They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.

after a woman has reached a sort of final maturity, her soul has unfolded like a fireflower and no amount of time can extinguish the flame or attenuate the colors.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.