Quotes About Beauty

I want trees that are three hundred feet tall, black bear that poke around my stuff, deer that eat out of my hand, and a view that almost brings me to my knees every morning. I want to work just hard enough to afford my life.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. —Augustine of Hippo

She began to relish the small things—his occasional subdued laughter. No one could call it an actual laugh, but he did cave into amusement if she shot him a smart-ass comment. He smiled at her from time to time—behind that bushy red-brown beard he had beautiful, healthy teeth. But

difficult and beautiful.

It can get rugged." "You saying beautiful isn't always easy?" he asked her. She grinned. "I'm not sure that's exactly the message, but I guess so.

Her scars were not thistles, they were velvet artwork on her heart. In

She's beautiful, isn't she?" He put an arm around her shoulders and laughed. "Shelby, babies are like puppies, there's no such thing as an ugly one.

They love that rock. Ever been to Yosemite?" She shook her head.

wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.

She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.

Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.

Well, I think it's beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.

perhaps the greatest poem ever written

I saw—no, I think the word is beheld—the most wondrous thing in the world. This church was indescribably complex and harmonious; it was like stepping into the mind of God. I was overcome by the desire to worship—a feeling I would not see as adequately articulated until many years later, when I would read Dante Alighieri's description, in his first book, Vita nuova, of the first time he, as a child, saw Beatrice:

in an era in which logical reason is doubted and even dismissed, and the heart's desire is glorified by popular culture, the most effective way to evangelize is by helping people experience beauty and goodness.

Los medievales, prosigue Lewis, «veían el cosmos como un gran edificio» —quizás como la catedral de Chartres— «que nos sobrecoge con su grandeza y al tiempo nos tranquiliza con su armonía».

I have fallen in love with the world And I am aware that I have chosen the most dangerous lover of them all.

Thank you for the sun you brought this morning even though the sky was full of clouds.

Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

Love is a sweet thing caught a moment and held in a golden eye.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.

Aphrodite of sexual love, Apollo of light and poetry