All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
~ Donald Miller
True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.
~ Amit Ray
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
~ John Ruskin
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...
~ Sappho
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.
~ Toni Morrison
The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Proportion is the heart of beauty.
~ Ken Follett
Wow Kelsey! Kishan whistled. I'm going to have to beat the other guys of with a stick!
~ Colleen Houck
She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
~ Naomi Wolf
There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.
~ Catherine Doyle
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
~ Oscar Wilde
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient, more beautiful than it is useful, it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.
~ Scott Westerfeld
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
~ Cormac Mccarthy
Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.
~ Sherwood Smith
He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.
~ Antony John
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.
~ George Eliot
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays
~ Jeanette Winterson
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.
Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.
Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.
~ Christopher Paolini
People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.
~ Nenia Campbell
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
~ L.m. Montgomery
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
~ Stephen King
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
~ Baltasar Gracián
As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.
~ Robin Mckinley
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~ John Donne
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
~ Marquis De Sade
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
~ Arthur Golden
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...
~ Eva Ibbotson
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
~ André Breton
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys
A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.
~ Tana French
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to talk to. You can walk. One foot the other foot. Breathe in breathe out. Drink from the stream. Piss. Eat the venison strips. And. You can’t metabolize the loss. It is in the cells of your face, your chest, behind the eyes, in the twists of the gut. Muscles, sinew, bone. It is all of you. When you walk you propel it forward. When you let the sled and sit on a fallen log and. You imagine him curling in the one patch of sun maybe lying over your feet. Then it sits with you, the Pain puts its arm over your shoulders. It is your closest friend. Steadfast. And at night you can’t bear to hear your own breath unaccompanied by another and underneath the big stillness like a score is the roaring of the cataract of everything being and being torn away. Then. The Pain is lying beside your side, close. Does not bother you with sound even of breathing.
~ Peter Heller
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
