Quotes About Beauty

The ground beneath our feet is home to more untapped wonder than the skies above our head

the small garden was just a slip of earth on the side of the house, bit it seemed like its own universe. The sweet, sharp scent of hundreds of flowers greeted her. Even in the night their colors sang it was a thick, lush blanket of color- luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red. It was like a movie version of an enchanted harden, gorgeous, vivid, and too beautiful to be real. She could dive into the purple of the violets and live there.

we miss the opportunity to marvel at our wonders because we have so much set up still to do that what we have done pales into insignificance in relation to what is (always!) yet to be done. Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. TODAY is awareness day for what I have accomplished. Celebrations may be in order.

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated.

People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe

Behind all created beauty the mystic sees a witness to the source of eternal beauty – the ruby is the heart of the stone, which has been transformed into a priceless jewel through patience and shedding its blood...

The eye of the mystic who is enraptured in love sees traces of eternal beauty everywhere and listens to the mute eloquence of everything created. Whatever he mentions, his goal is the essence of the beloved—like Zulaykha, who, longing for Joseph's beauty, applied to him "the name of every thing, from rue-seed to aloes-wood." If she piled up a hundred thousand names— her meaning and intention was always Joseph. (M 6:4022-37)

Görelim Hak ne eyler, N'eylerse güzel eyler.

Beauty," he said, looking into her eyes, "resides where gentleness and love are the most wondrous of gifts.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

It is a lovely hell, but hell nonetheless.

Vu Trop belle pour toi, rien n'est semblable à mon histoire et tout l'est. En sortant, je sais qu'il s'agit de moi, de la vie ordinaire, des rapports contradictoires entre les hommes et les femmes.

grande difficulté pour évincer F. qui le veut aussi, qui me court après). Et là, je sais, je sens, je suis sûre. C'est l'enchaînement parfait des moments, la complicité, la force d'un désir qui n'a pas eu besoin de beaucoup de paroles, le tout d'une grande beauté.

Tout ce qui se chantait en anglais était nimbé d'une mystérieuse beauté. Dream, love, heart, des mots purs, sans usage pratique, qui donnaient le sentiment d'un au-delà.

J'ai voulu faire de cette passion une Å"uvre d'art dans ma vie, ou plutôt cette liaison est devenue passion parce que je l'ai voulue Å"uvre d'art (Michel Foucault : le souverain bien, c'est de faire de sa vie une Å"uvre d'art).

Pour un homme. Et quand je le vois, là, dans le hall de l'ambassade, je le trouve insignifiant, joli garçon, c'est tout. Je relis Anna Karenine.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Pornography is like a mirror through which we can take a look at ourselves. And sometimes what we see doesn't look pretty, and it can make us feel very uncomfortable. But how beautiful to take that look, to see (truth), and to learn. The answer to bad porn is not no porn, but to make better porn!

It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.