Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. “She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be...

I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves...

Young things like you don’t need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Beauty has rights that plainness never will.

Her beauty was classic, timeless. Just the line of her neck, the curve of her cheek, the way the dress draped her hips, was enough to stop the room. When she’d turned away to look...

Ik zou het ook niet fijn vinden om te horen dat mijn cupidoboog scheef is. Het is toch een beetje alsof je bovenlip scoliose heeft.

The illusion of beauty – the rule of comparisons.

“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

…for if a woman’s body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played....

They want time to move fast so they can paint their nails a provocative red and wear high heels that crack walnuts and make people jump. He wants time to slow down so he can...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease....

Please, I’m a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don’t know how to defend myself?

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Silence is the beauty of the empty streets; laughter is the beauty of the crowded streets! There is beauty both in emptiness and in fullness; there is beauty both in absence and in presence!

…it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely – did I tell you you’re beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me…

The desert at night was black and a strange madder-tinted silver; the sky was black, and the great contorted cliffs, and the vast expanses of sand that stretched out in all directions. But the red...

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don’t do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped...

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

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...

Love” is only a one syllable word but it’s the most powerful one mankind’s ever heard.

That’s the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You’re all brainwashed into...

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return — every time you make your drudgeries and routines still...

As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him… Honor. A man’s honor should be more sacred...

REFLECTIONS OF A MIRRORBeautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by...

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created...

The world’s crazy when it comes to beauty.

And perhaps,frozen somewhere with time,Our words will never cease to rhyme

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in...

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself — avoid trying to be something you’re not. For a goddess, that’s especially...

The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.

She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves – such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way...

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

You are my favorite song; a rhythm of beauty that captures my spirit.

I’m a keeper of flocks.The flock is my thoughtsAnd my thoughts are all sensations.I think with my eyes and with my earsAnd with my hands and feetAnd with my nose and mouth.Thinking about a flower...

But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood’s experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its...

When we align with love and beauty we instantly become the answer to every problem.

And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?…I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned...

Surround yourself with beautiful and positive people, who love you and believe in you.

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a...

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.

…Because beauty is typically the result of a few qualities working in concert, it can take more to guarantee the appeal of a bridge or a house than strength alone. (p 205)

Your external appearance to can be great, but your stunning beauty beams from within.