Quotes About Beauty

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

What is common to them all,—that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Mikään ei ole kaunista yksinään, kokonaisuus tekee kauniiksi.

There is a crack in every thing God has made.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin wonders if "the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death.

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.

Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.

Presence, relationship, holiness, trust, beauty, goodness, peace—all were present in the relationship between God and humanity at creation. By playing God and redefining good and evil according to our own discretion, we introduced into the human spirit disobedience, absence, severance, distrust, evil, and restlessness.

Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.

Mirarea const?, în parte, în capacitatea de a recunoaÈ™te c? mâna minunat? a Creatorului a turnat tot cerul în fiecare via??.

Oh, Earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you!" Then

What God wanted him [Job] to realize was that this same God who brought such pattern and beauty into a world He had fashioned out of nothing could also bring a pattern and beauty out of Job's brokenness. The universe is both complex and intelligible, and Job was reminded of that. There is intelligence behind the design,as there is also intelligence in helping us cope with suffering.

Ni se pare de la sine înÈ›eles c? nenorocirea È™i eÈ™ecul nasc cinism. ?i avem impresia c? puterea È™i frumuseÈ›ea aduc împlinire.

We miss the roses and see only the thorns. We take for granted the warmth of the sun and get depressed by the frequency of the rain or the snow. We ignore the sounds of life in a nursery because we are preoccupied with the sounds of sirens responding to an emergency.

En síntesis, aceptar y celebrar el hilo de nuestra propia personalidad es el primer paso para comprender el diseño del gran Tejedor en nuestra vida. No eres un número. Él te conoce por tu nombre. Cada etapa del proceso tal vez no parezca muy atractiva, pero cada detalle saldrá a relucir y será hermoso a su manera.