Quotes About Meaning

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

To become completely healed is to become the healer - bringing the beauty and meaning you found into the world.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

I hate pretty. It's a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.