One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life’s test.

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.-...

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

Fie, fie upon her! There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love’s face.Life don’t unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light – not exist in darkness.

We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.

But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.

No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. –Paul Turnbull

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

We are all BEAUTIFUL… outside beauty fades…but if U can touch a beings heart with a smile, the right word, with who U are…and plant the seed of love and so lift their SOUL and...

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren’t they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder if envy hadn’t blinded her. Perhaps to be flawless was another kind of...

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember,...

To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or...

When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?

all things have beauty, but not everyone sees it

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

Love speaks of beauty only heart can see.

A happy mind is also a beautiful universal mind.

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which...

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines...

I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine.

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Her name was Penny, and she was good looking. She wasn’t a dime, but she wasn’t a nickel either. If there were a coin worth 7.5 cents, she’d be that. And I’d be the vending...

It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction...

She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I’m sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match.

Most people forget that there is more to beauty than just one’s physical appearance. Your physical beauty will inevitably age and fade away, but a beautiful heart won’t.

Don’t look at the package. Look at what’s inside.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

She turned more heads than a coven of chiropractors.

Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?” “Well, she’s not known for her personality or generosity of spirit, so it’s probably because she’s hot.” “She’s not as hot as you,” I said, before I...

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

The universe and the events in it are thus perfect examples to imitate. However, no matter how perfect the example is, everyone will draw and interpret objects according to their abilities. Charles Lako, commenting on...

The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don’t know what beauty is.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Nature is amazing wonder.

Having seen one of William Steig’s letters, I mentioned to Arthur how similar I thought William’s handwriting seemed to the lines of his drawings.’I never connected the handwriting and the drawing,’ Arthur remarked. ‘But they’re...

True beauty express itself automatically. It’s not only visible in the material, but around one’s being, and within their aura. I once met a female, who was like that of a jeweled flower. Her celestial...

I am now comfortable with standing in the beauty of my status as an unrepeatable and singular expression of humanity. I’ve become unwilling to discount the pieces of my soul that make me whole and...

God have mercy upon those? who do not know the divine truth within themselves.

Et in Arcadia Ego

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.