Quotes About Experience

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.