Quotes About Beauty

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.

Equality in the eyes of God is a core tenet of the Christian tradition. But it has translated in the era of secular humanism not into equality in the eyes of God but equality in the eyes of man. And here there is a problem, which is that many people realize, fear or intuit that people are not entirely equal. People are not equally beautiful, equally gifted, equally strong or equally sensible. They are certainly not equally wealthy. They are not even equally lovable.

Books,' he said, like he might have said 'Jewels.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Bertrand Russell once said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty. . . .

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Use plants to bring life.

Coming to worship the Lord in the "beauty of holiness" somehow gets translated into the "warmth of niceness." Almost entirely gone is the experience of being run through, pierced by the numinous.

Good writing is like a great cathedral. The echoes are lovely.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

...letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.

Memory is ours as long as we live. Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.

On the Threshold is beautiful and very touching and a moving tribute to my friend, colleague and mentor Irvin Yalom.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

Teeth are always in style.

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.

Yearning for sun and starlight, roses and winter, together.

During the darkest indigo midnight, yet will countless stars blossom.

Whatever my day may have lacked, yet I have tonight's pearl moon.

A flock of geese leave their lake and take wing, turning to poems in the sky.

Live like a star, that always and mesmerize others by its beauty but doesn't anyone by its illuminance and becomes a meteoroid itself...

You a star in my eyes. You and all them white girls, Party of Five.

I know things get hard but girl you got it, girl you got it, there you go. Cant you tell by how they looking at you everywhere you go? Wondering whats on your mind, it must be hard to be that fine when all these muthafuckas wanna waste your time. Its just amazing, girl. All I can say is Im so proud of you.