Beauty
- All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.--Evelyn Underhill (Mysticism)
- Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.--Franz Kafka
- Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.--Plotinus (The Enneads)
- Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.--George MacDonald
- Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.--Diana Vreeland
- Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.--Frederick Ward Kates
- Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.--Goethe
- Beauty is at the heart of God, and the beauty that we see — and even create — is like the trailing wake from God's hand across the ocean of the universe. This is why, in attending to beauty, we become open to the mystery of God.--Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
- Beauty is everywhere to he or she who would behold it. When God reigns supreme in the consciousness of man, the tiniest blade of grass speaks of God's beauty.--Frater Achad
- Beauty is God's handwriting.--Charles Kingsley
- Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.--Al Bernstein
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations)
- Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.--Khalil Gibran
- Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket)
- The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.--George Sand
- Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus)
- Beauty you may have with you always, if you will but plant beauty in your heart.--Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.--Helen Keller
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.--Hannah Arendt (Rachel Varnhagen)
- The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.--Lord Greville
- Dragons will wander about
the waste places,
and the phoenix will soar
from her nest of fire
into the air
We shall lay our hands
upon the Basilisk,
and see the jewel
in the toad's head.
Champing his gilded oats,
the hippogriff will stand
in our stalls,
and over our heads
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be.--Oscar Wilde (The Decay of Lying)
- Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees takes off his shoes.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("Aurora Leigh")
- Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "Isn’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"--Alice Freeman Palmer
- Flowers ... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Gifts", Essays, First Series)
- For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.--Ivan Panin
- God is beautiful and He loves beatuy.--Mohammed
- God's beauty is expressed whenever man of earth so desires to seek for it. It shall not be difficult for man to behold beauty, when he beholds the beauty of God within his own consciousness.--Frater Achad
- He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.--John Galsworthy
- I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.--Ansel Adams
- I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.--Oscar Wilde
- I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.--Oscar Hammerstein
- I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.--Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality)
- If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.--Andrew Harvey
- In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.--Harriet Beecher Stowe
- It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.--Charles Ramuz (Adieu, a beaucoup de personnages)
- It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.--Jimmy Carter
- It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.--Anonymous
- Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson
- The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity.--Ruby Dee
- A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.--Sa'di (Gulistan)
- Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.--William Cullen Bryant
- Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.--Gabriela Mistral
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.--Albert Einstein
- Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.--John Ruskin
- Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and
the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.--Rumi
- The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.--Rumi
- Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.--Eliphas Levi
- People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.--Iris Murdoch
- Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.--Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.--John Ruskin. (The Stones of Venice, I)
- Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.--Louis Orr (speech to the American Medical Association, 6/6/60)
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate… --William Shakespeare ("Sonnet 18")
- Some astronomers say we may be alone in this galaxy. That this planet, filled with life, is an extremely rare event. If so, all the more we must preserve its beauty which speaks to our inner self as nothing else. --J. Lloyd Ewart (Inspirational Images)
- Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the dost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all that you have been, or could be.--Sara Teasdale ("Barter")
- Stars over snow,
And in the west a planet
Swinging below a star--
Look for a lovely thing and you will find it,
It is not far--
It never will be far.--Sara Teasdale ("Night")
- Then we shall rise and view ourselves with clearer eyes in that calm region where no night can hide us from each other's sight.--Henry King
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.--John Keats
- To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- To deprive ourselves of beauty is to deprive ourselves of an important reminder of God, who is Beauty itself.--Murray Bodo (The Simple Way: Meditations on the Words of Saint Francis)
- True beauty consists of purity of heart.--Mohandas Gandhi
- We are living in a world of beauty, but few of us open our eyes to see it.--Lorado Taft
- We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.--Mary Oliver
- When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I think God I am alive.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.--Marie Stopes
- We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance we are ugly.--Plotinus
- Women sit or move to and fro, some are old, some young. The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful then the young.--Walt Whitman
- Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.--Christian Dior
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