Quotes About Beauty

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.

The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed.

Wilderness, our original home, is the place from which all life comes, the place that offers us challenge and beauty, adventure and comfort, triumph, and memory.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

The most beautiful videos come from reading poetry. And they're in your head.

To violate beauty is the essence of sexual desire. To procreate is the essence of decay.

April splinters like an ice palace.

On Porter's desk was a gold-framed portrait of Mama, looking as beautiful as a movie star, and be- side it, to my surprise, was a picture of me. The last time I was in this office, it had not been there, and I was pleased to see it.

I don't regard my life as insufficient. Inside the brushwood gate there is a moon; there are flowers.

I must go there today - Tomorrow the plum blossoms Will scatter.

Pourquoi me sentirais-je Dans le besoin ? Devant ma porte de broussailles, La lune est là, Les fleurs sont là.

Some things were made to be felt

The world is full of precious garbage.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'

If there is beauty, there must be ugliness; If there is right, there must be wrong. Wisdom and ignorance are complementary, And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated. This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently. "I want this, I want that" Is nothing but foolishness. I'll tell you a secret - "All things are impermanent!

How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

You should move toward whatever changes, whatever surgeries, whatever renovations or alterations or restorations will create you in the glory you deserve, oh yes you should. And you should do it with your usual style, and you should do it without shame, and when you're healed up and ready we can go shopping for something fabulous to showcase the many wonders of you.

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

There is light and dark in all of us, Niamh. Sometimes life causes us to let in a little more dark than we're comfortable with. But as long as we remember the light exists to chase away the shadows, we'll be okay." He glanced at her meaningfully. "The dark is our imperfect natures, but without it, we'd never realize how beautiful the light is. How beautiful it is as it dances with the shadows. I know you'll be okay.

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.

That is what makes us love beautiful things: they have a perennial appeal, and hearing about them a second and third time can be even better than the first. The first time you hear it but not all of it. When you hear it again you savor every detail. Thus, when Avraham David spoke about our Master, the distinguished Av Beit Din, he would go on and on about things we already knew, but both the speaker and the listener felt as if they were only now hearing the real gist of it for the first time.