Quotes About Beauty

But as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history.

Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence (for a review of this evidence, see Langlois et al., 2000).

we may be less satisfied with the physical attractiveness of our own lovers because of the way the popular media bombard us with examples of unrealistically attractive models.

Flowers, like cats, were too involved in their own intricate magnificence to minister to her self-love.

I had been standing there rather stupidly, instead of taking my departure, as I should have done, for I may as well confess that I was astounded at the sumptuous beauty of the girl before me, who had hitherto cast not even a look in my direction. Now she raised her lovely, indescribable eyes to mine, and I felt a thrill extend to my finger-tips. Many handsome women have I seen in my day, but none to compare with this superb daughter of the West.

Before marriage a woman may procure some éclat by pretending to believe in the fiction of her ascendancy; but after marriage, the worshipped beauty becomes a very plain every-day sort of person, and the poetry of the sex's power is at an end for ever!

The sound of the rampaging Missouri,Bending the reeds again and again—something inside usLike a ghost train in the RockiesAbout to be buried in snow!Its long hootMaking the owl in the Douglas fir turn his head.

Regarding travel writer and author T.R. Threston. "Tina is one of the most beautiful women I've met. She isn't just physically attractive, she also has inner beauty. She is compassionate, funny, intelligent, and, has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met. She is truly one of a kind!

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.